Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scraped its wing on the ground during a landing attempt in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend, an airline spokesman said Monday. The plane recovered and landed safely the second time around, the spokesman said.Amateur video of the incident that appeared on the Internet showed the Airbus A320 teetering as it tried to land during brutal winter storm on Saturday.
"As we were about to touch down, a gust of wind pressed the left wing towards the ground," a Lufthansa pilot identified only as Oliver A. said in a statement. "We pulled up immediately. A maneuver we practice in training very often."
The airline said the pilot has been flying for Lufthansa for 17 years.
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