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[LondonEye]

What happened this morning to 138 @ LHR? Hear aborted landing JIT due to other aircraft on runway. Anyone know?

[BOAC]

No, but it sounds like a good plan to me.

[DaveReidUK]

What happened this morning to 138 @ LHR? Hear aborted landing JIT due to other aircraft on runway. Anyone know?

Assuming that by JIT you mean "just in time" then you're making this sound unnecessarily melodramatic.

Go-arounds (aka missed approaches) are a perfectly safe procedure and a pretty well daily event at Heathrow - there were 485 of them last year.

Hopefully we're not going to see a rash of posts every time one happens.

[blaggerman]

According to the Daily MailSunStar, the brave pilot wrestled with the controls as the plane wobbled back into the air, narrowly missing a school full of children. Some suspected Muslims on board were subdued by alert passengers.

[USER0005]

To answer the question, I guess it landed, completely without incident on the second attempt!

[racedo]

Go-arounds (aka missed approaches) are a perfectly safe procedure and a pretty well daily event at Heathrow - there were 485 of them last year.

That is unless they are by Ryanair, in which case its that Irish Airline, run by Michael O'Leary, who is deliberately putting passengers lives at risk

[Espada III]

Whilst waiting at LHR on Thursday night, I noticed two go arounds within an hour I think.