Lufthansa A380 is UNABLE TO LAND AT JFK and ends up diverting!

Airport operation and runway condition may cause some severe troubles to airlines. This Lufthansa was affected and forced to divert as they couldn't land on the active runways with the surface conditions they had. Kudos to the pilots for a good decision!

“You don’t have A380s here regularly, right?” 😂😂 love it

Now that’s an awesome pilot right there ! He knows his plane and not to mention you can understand him clearly .

I was working at PHL when this happened. I remember being surprised to see a A380 landing since the biggest we get here are 747s. Then when it taxed to the cargo apron, I wondered if it really was cargo or what was actually going on. Watched it take off too and thought "well, now I've seen one of those big suckers," and regretted not taking any pics. Thanks for clearing up the mystery for me!

Everyone involved acted professionally, kind, were thorough to avoid accidents, polite to each other, and arrived at the best solution under the circumstances.

Lufthansa pilot definitely knew his shit.... gotta give him credit... safety first...

Huge level of frustration but it’s amazing how professional everyone was. I can’t begin to imagine how much crap the crew had to deal with from the passengers.

Man, Lufthansa really raises the bar of professionalism here, again.

Thank you VASAviation for all your hard work. I have noticed this year the quality of your videos just keeps getting better. Always very interesting content on your channel. Your work on these is much appreciated.

From the second pilot`s (Ulrich Beinert ) own video on this diversion: "We refueled, offloaded some cargo (which was transported to NY on ground or by other planes) to have less weight and land safely with the given conditions, then flew to JFK. The passengers were taken care of on board by our cabin crew during this time."

An awesome demonstration of professionalism on both sides of the mic! I flew the 757 and 767 out of JFK for the last 15 years of my career and have nothing but admiration for all of the ATC controllers there, regardless of what position they were working.

The level of professionalism from the pilots to the ATC gang was remarkable.

Oh you can't give me runway 13? We'll see about that! "Lufthansa 400 declaring emergency!"

"Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, as you may have noticed, we are currently in a holding pattern because our airplane is too massive for the airport."

The flight crew had a lot of patience. But then I nearly always have hope for humanity after listening to these very polite conversations. Amazing especially when you consider at least one of the parties speaking has to be pretty tired. Cheers Bill

I don't know why I enjoy these videos as much as I do. I'm not ATC, I'm not a pilot, and the only time I worked near planes was when I was 19 in 2007 and I spent a summer loading Air Tractors (crop dusting planes) with fuel and chemicals. However I really enjoy these videos, both when things work out well and when things can get heated. When things work out well - or as well as they can given all the variables with airline travel, i.e. a situation like this - I enjoy the teamwork, communication, patience, and understanding. The ATC was great both in New York and Philadelphia, the pilots on the Lufthansa were great in recognizing a potential hazard given the weather and making a difficult decision to fly to Philly instead (while also asking numerous times if there was any way they could land on the runways that their aircraft was capable of landing on), and while I'm sure there were some people on that flight that were pissed to have to fly to Philly and how it inconvenienced them, I'm sure if they listened to this series of transmissions they would see that their pilots acted responsibly and ATC explained clearly what the situation was but more importantly why it was that way. Well played to everyone involved in this. As for the not-so-well videos I like, I just enjoy myself a good confrontation I suppose.

"Lufthansa 400 Super heavy requesting runway 13." "Lufthansa 400, you're too heavy. Go away."

Very insightful and well handled by those involved - the pilots made the right decision, these situations happen and keeping everybody safe was clearly the primary thing. I applaud!

Usually these ATC videos I watch are of somebody making mistakes or emergencies. I started watching this video expecting to hear a big argument over the radio followed by a few safety reports. Instead... it was 12 minutes of nice pilots, nice controllers, and an interesting situation; I'm pleasantly surprised.

My brother is an A380 Captain for another airline. Sure sounds like they earn their considerable money some days.. The Lufthansa Captain was incredibly cool under pressure.