Not quite as near a miss as it looks…….?

I can’t believe the media made a big thing out of it.
When I studied television journalism, you had to take a cinematography course…and the compression effect of a telephoto lens was pretty basic stuff.

Thanks for confirming my thought about the incident as suggested on the thread title….

Much to do about nothing, as per usual. The 767 was probably at least 1-2nm away and was watching the whole thing unfold. A standard go around was flown. There was nothing dramatic, no disaster averted but merely a runway incursion that was dealt with according to training. The media love it don’t they? I am surprised the media didn’t say that when the 767 pulled up it did so and just missed a primary school full of infants, too.

I’ve never had an aborted landing in a civil jet but did have to exercise that option when coming into land behind a Jabiru on a gravel runway a couple of years ago. I was also flying a Jabbie and followed the first plane at a reasonable distance, watched him land, coast a bit then drop to his right wing tip as his under-carriage collapsed. Time for power on and put out a PAN call for others in circuit that a plane was down. Actually it skidded just off the gravel and onto the grass but was still within the runway markers. Just to be sure,on my second attempt, I landed half way down the runway having received a wave from the pilot and pax from the downed craft. I guess the point I’m making is that it might look scary for on-lookers, from the cockpit it is ‘just one of those things’ we’re all trained to deal with.

It looked reasonably close but good flying by the UTair crew.

Daylight and lack of a ‘heat haze’ probably made the 767 flight crew take sensible action early and avoid another Teneriffe (583 fatalities)

Hope the ATC responsible for clearing the taxiing A330 onto the runway in front of the about to land 767 is deployed to run in Pamplona Bull Run http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28198035 with his ankles connected by a length of rope, thereby ensuring he can only stride and not run.:highly_amused:

The Barcelona El Prat airport should be renamed El Pratt:D

Go around

I’ve never had a go around. How much of a delay does that cause?

I had one at CDG back in the years. I was flying back from ATL aboard a DL MD11. A plane was still on the runway and we got a free ride :highly_amused:

It took as far as I remember 25 mn to land.

Often the zoom forshortening does make it look much worse but in this case the airliner going arround was soon over the camera, so it was pretty close.

But it was seen early enough and th action taken meant it didn’t get that close but the potential was there for something really nasty.

I thought perhaps the zoom made the incident appear closer than it was, but perhaps not. Not so much as a go around as such but I clearly recall an F27 flight from Amsterdam to the old Stansted many years ago on a freezing foggy January afternoon. Long delayed tale-off but eventually went with moderately optimistic forecast from Stansted which turned out misplaced. Four attempts to try to get a visual on the approach then aborted in favour of Luton. Same story there – five attempts without success. Back to Stansted and then on back to Schiphol. Boy was I glad to get back on terra firma.

I’ve never had a go around. How much of a delay does that cause?

Close enough for me, I’d had a passenger in my pants.