Plane spotter captures windy Wellington landing
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Save Plane spotter Tim Gorman captured the moment Air NZ Flight NZ 449 had to abort a landing at Wellington Airport. Video / Tim Gorman
A dedicated plane spotter has caught the moment an Air New Zealand plane came close, but no cigar to landing at Wellington Airport on Monday.
Tim Gorman shot two videos of NZ449's descent into the capital city after the pilot was forced to abort the landing twice due to windy
weather.
The first of two recordings shows the plane virtually touching the runway before it lurches up again and performs a standard "go-around" procedure.
Gorman told Fairfax that the landing was the closest-to-tarmac pull-up he had seen in 20 years of watching planes at Wellington.