Strange go around BA347
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Lots of possible reasons I can think of - cancelled clearance due to late runway departure for a previous aircraft, or missed approach due to winds, or some kind of warning in the cockpit, or ??
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Being pedantic, we only tend to call them go-arounds when they occur inside of 4nm from touchdown. Outside of this its termed a break-off.
The missed approach procedure climbs to an initial altitude of 3000ft, so at 2750ft no crew is going to select TOGA power to climb 250ft.
What will happen is ATC will give a heading, having coordinated with other controllers first, and then once the aircraft is breaking out of the approach, a climb may be given.
The missed approach procedure climbs to an initial altitude of 3000ft, so at 2750ft no crew is going to select TOGA power to climb 250ft.
What will happen is ATC will give a heading, having coordinated with other controllers first, and then once the aircraft is breaking out of the approach, a climb may be given.
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Once I had a similar "go around" or break-off when we vectored too soon and flight crew didn't have time to stabilise the approach to the level they were comfortable. So we were a bit high and a bit too fast and was not enough time to correct everything. So done a circle with a bit longer final and all went fine.
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I personally witnessed five go-arounds from finals at Heathrow earlier today in fairly quick succession - LH A320 from MUC, BA 777-300ER from JFK, BA A380 from MIA, BA 744 from PHX and Air Astana 757. They all flew the standard missed approach pattern and landed at the second attempt. It was very gusty in the middle part of the day.
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A fun go-around. Landing at AUS in a thunderstorn under a mile from the numbers the wind shear warning went off and the pilot went full-throttle and got us back up in a big hurry!
My son was 3 at the time and never looked up from the skymall magazine. Great flyer
My son was 3 at the time and never looked up from the skymall magazine. Great flyer