Posted on 07/08/2014 9:33:43 AM PDT by Former Fetus
This is the terrifying moment two passenger jets came seconds from crashing into each other at Barcelona airport.
The heart-stopping moment two passenger planes avoided a catastrophic collision was caught on camera on Saturday.
Footage shows a Boeing 767 from the Russian airline UTair coming in to land on a runway at Barcelona's El Prat Airport. But with the plane just feet from touching down, an Aerolineas Argentineas Airbus A340 slowly taxis across the runway, forcing the still-airborne pilot to respond to the emergency by pulling back into the air.
The quick-thinking pilot of the UTair jet landed the plane safely after circling around.
Plane enthusiast Miguel Angel caught the moment on film, describing it as "one of the worst experiences I have ever had".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
....and changed his underwear...............
tenerife airport disaster , still the deadliest accident in aviation history when two 747’s collision killed most of the people on board.
It is “Dramatic”, only because it was caught on camera.
Runway incursions are, unfortunately, a part of flying, and pilots train for them. There are about 250+ reported incursions a year in the US alone, (who knows how many go unreported).
It is a focus point for FAA Safety Programs, and everyone that drives on a secured airport has to go through the program yearly.
Beat me to it. Lol.
Where is the video clip of the UTair Capt, kicking the sh*t of the Skyteam’s Capt ??????
It may not be Skyteam’s fault. The ATC may have screwed up...............
This should be tagged to the article here about windowless cockpits in the future.
A near miss is called a collision.
You can miss by a little, or miss by a lot.
A ‘near miss’ is missing by a little
Not unique IMO. I was on a DC 10 in the late 80s departing SFO. On our takeoff roll north along the bay we went into super stop mode...full reverse and brakes as another plane had been given the go ahead east across our runway
As we avoided the crash and the copilot came on to inform us we would be heading back to the hanger to have the brakes checked and a refueling one could hear the pilot screaming at the tower in unprintable language here concerning how they screwed up.
Last week, we were close to touching down on the first leg of a flight back to CA between Jacksonville, FL and Atlanta. The pilot then pulled it up to go around, and announced that a plane hadn’t cleared the runway. Guess that happens somewhat frequently, thankfully without incident most of the time.
If I recall correctly, Atlanta was where a traffic controller recently gave an instruction to an airliner, then announced she was “just kidding”. Yikes.
Near *hit*. Unless air travel is horseshoes & hand grenades.
I was a passenger in a Continental airlines 727 that aborted landing as we went over the west outer markers on the east-west runway. A military helicopter taking off crossed in front of the plane and the pilot aborted the landing. The pilot went FULL power, immediately hit the landing gear up switch while maintaining full flaps and pulled up radically plus went into a hard turn. I had no idea before this how much power the 727 had that is normally not used, the g-force was much greater than I had ever experienced and at the time, I was flying about 50k miles a year. After about 10 seconds the pilot got on the intercom and told us what had occurred. We landed normally without drama 10 minutes later.
Many kudos to the uber competent pilot and copilot that pulled the emergency actions reflexively. Bet they were USAF trained.
Our AA flight from Dallas to Bradley International in Hartford on 6/8 had to abort its landing as there was a last minute runway incursion. I had this happen once before at Bradley.
When I worked in downtown San Diego years ago, my office had a view of both landing planes and the airport runway. From time-to-time, I would hear the roar of jet engines as the pilot had to abort his landing due to a runway incursion. In one case, a jet just started its takeoff. As it was heading down the runway, the landing jet was heading off above it to gain altitude. That one was quite close.
...or as George Carlin would have said, “A near HIT!”
The Father of a Kid I used to work with was killed in the KLM Disaster. He got the call while he was at Work. I still remember the look on his face, it was unreal.
BTW - To my knowledge there were no survivors.
bttt
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