xyzzy
9th Apr 2016, 20:37
I'm well aware that go-arounds happen for all sorts of reasons, and they're about as exceptional as rain on a winter's day. I'm hardly a frequent flyer (certainly less than five hundred flights over my life) but I've experienced three or four. Engines spool up, plane heads upwards, people at the front of the plane do their job.
But so I can sound all knowledgeable for my daughter, who was onboard, can anyone say in layman's language why BA463 went around this evening? I see from Flight Radar 24 that it went around, I think from 27L, from about 500 feet and 135 knots at 20:00 UTC. I would guess that the plane in front was slow to clear, but FR24 is a bit unreliable at that granulariy (it shows the plane first approaching 27L, going around, and then making a second approach on a parallel track slightly to the north slap into the terminal buildings, which I presume didn't happen) and it's a little hard to tell.
But so I can sound all knowledgeable for my daughter, who was onboard, can anyone say in layman's language why BA463 went around this evening? I see from Flight Radar 24 that it went around, I think from 27L, from about 500 feet and 135 knots at 20:00 UTC. I would guess that the plane in front was slow to clear, but FR24 is a bit unreliable at that granulariy (it shows the plane first approaching 27L, going around, and then making a second approach on a parallel track slightly to the north slap into the terminal buildings, which I presume didn't happen) and it's a little hard to tell.