Originally Posted by
RB211
So we (BA 287 B744 LHR-SFO) got a bit close to an AA plane (AA 399 B738 DFW-SFO I believe) on final approach (I have some pics of the AA craft, but they aren't great) so much so that we had to abort and went around for another try; FlightAware shows this quite nicely.
Would this be considered a "near miss" or whatever the correct phrase is? Or do the requirements for this on approach to parallel runways allow for much less legal separation so that this wouldn't be considered an "incident"?
rb211.
Was that definitely the reason for the go-around? It's entirely normal to fly parallel approaches at SFO albeit with the 2nd aircraft offset a few hundred metres behind. 747s are a bit faster on the approach and you aren't allowed to overtake the preceding traffic so that may be what happened. Not a near kiss though as its a standard procedure and everyone knows where the other aircraft is.