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Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:21 pm
by tut
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28200666
tut
ps:- very appropriately named
"a runway at El Prat airport"
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:15 pm
by Dominic
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:56 am
by robin
Reading the article it sounds like a storm in a tea cup ... though no explanation of why the landing aircraft aborted the landing?
Cheers,
Robin
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:03 am
by tut
Could be that he was heading directly for it and did not want to plough into it and go up in a ball of flame.
tut
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:14 am
by robin
They weren't that close in reality, it's just the camera angle that makes it look that way.
Cheers,
Robin
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:14 pm
by Dave
A bit more information here, it states the aircraft was about 20 seconds from touch down when the go-around was initiated, however it also claims that the aircraft could have landed safely.
http://avherald.com/h?article=476e99b0&opt=0
Re: Good job we have Pete.....
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 3:09 pm
by tut
Don't worry, Russian pilot in the air, Argentinian pilot on the ground, they would have managed a collision somehow, so probably better that he overshot.
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