747 captain battling extreme crosswinds while landing at Narita! 💨

Looks nerve-wracking to us, but just another day at the office for that captain! ✈️💪

He's listening to fast and furious music

I remember my first extreme crosswind landing. After 3 go arounds in a Cessna 152 I had landed. Was more worried about smacking the wing on the runway.

Indeed and safely landed

I still don't understand why there has to be so much penduluming of the controls, can someone explain?

I felt a sense of anxiety seeing that wheel jerk.

The lack of a crosswind runway is the first major flaw at Narita. The second, less dire in my opinion, but important, is the lack of a viable backup runway for an airport with such heavy operations.

what's he playing in those headphones tho?

Rather be doing that with a yoke than a side stick!

747 is such a great plane, can be really stable even in these conditions. Boeing built the greatest plane. And if you have flown into NRT, you have had to do this at least 1 x.