Some more details have come out about that crazy crosswind landing of a Lufthansa A320 that I wrote about last week. As I suspected, the winds at Hamburg airport were nowhere near 155 mph that some news organizations were first reporting. Looks like the actual winds were around 55 mph, which I surmised would be about the maximum crosswind an experienced pilot would attempt. Of course, those are still extreme winds, so it is interesting to also note that the landing was being attempted by the more inexperienced 24-year old co-pilot of the A320. The 39-year old pilot took over as the crosswind pushed the plane precariously close to the edge of the runway, scraping the left wing tip on the runway before he regained control. He then aborted the landing and went around to land safely on the second attempt. The one other fact that has surfaced is that on the second landing the pilot did not try to land on the same runway, but instead, landed on another runway at Hamburg that was more aligned with the strong winds, just as I thought an experienced pilot would do. Still unanswered are why the co-pilot was attempting the landing in such extreme weather, and also why the A320 crew didn't attempt the first landing on the runway with the more favorable winds.