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Old 5th April 2002 | 16:02
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Lou Scannon
 
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From: The Deep South (Sussex)
Gatwick controllers are a great bunch who do their utmost to avoid delays by utilising the single runway to the full.

Sometimes an aircraft cleared on to the runway for take-off suffers some delay over a minor problem. The aircraft on the approach is then given the instruction to "go-around" as the runway is obviously not available.

It is no more dangerous than that, and to suggest otherwise can only display a basic lack of knowledge or a journalistic attempt to fill space in a newspaper.

Please can journalists try engaging their brains before writing this sort of drivel.
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