Close call for a Lufthansa A320

A Lufthansa plane escapes disaster during a landing attempt in stormy weather. The flight had more than 130 passengers on board when it was pummelled by crosswinds while trying to land at Hamburg’s Fuhlsbuettel airport. The pilot scraped the Airbus A320’s wing on the runway but averted disaster by aborting the landing and taking off [...]

Massive Crowd

Ever wondered how the movie ‘Lord of the Rings’ showed huge crowds charging at each other? This was done by special effects generated by a software called MASSIVE (Multiple Agent Simulation System in Virtual Environment) originally developed in New Zealand. These crowd-related visual effects are actually computer animations and the result of the problem-solving [...]