Posted on 02/26/2025 9:07:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
An American Airlines flight from Boston aborted its landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, Tuesday to avoid a plane departing from the same runway.
“An air traffic controller instructed American Flight 2246 to perform a go-around at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) Airport to ensure separation was maintained between this aircraft and a preceding departure from the same runway,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
American Airlines said the flight landed “safely and normally” and described the move as standard operation to give the plane more time for the other plane to take off.
“American has a no-fault go-around policy as a go-around is not an abnormal flight maneuver and can occur nearly every day in the National Airspace System,” the airline said in its statement.
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This is pretty routine stuff, normally not news except for recent events there.
I will look in that that also thanks
Make note of the downhill vs. uphill routes and time of day heat if you walk it. I think I did it early morning when I did it.
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All of this aviation crap being reported these days is either intentional or was never reported before.
Wow didn’t this happen yesterday at Midway airport involving a Southwest plane and another crossing the runway?
It was a mostly peaceful near miss.
“ This is pretty routine stuff, normally not news except for recent events there.”
Yep. Nothing at all like the incursion yesterday at Midway.
This is pretty routine stuff, normally not news except for recent events there.
Yep, all meant to give the impression that Trump’s cuts are leading to “chaos”.
This one appears to be a routine go-around, not more than a minor safety concern at all. Let me explain.
I saw this a few hours ago and looked up the feed on FlightRadar24.
From the feed, it appears the landing jet, AA2246 from Boston to DCA (Reagan) airport only made it down to 450 feet before going around. That suggests there was no urgency - not like the Southwest 737 that had to go around from the flare because an aircraft made a “runway incursion” in violation of the clearance they had previously read back (accurately the 2nd time) to ATC.
In this case, it was probably the judgment of ATC or the AA crew that the airplane taking off ahead of them was too slow in taking the runway and getting airborne - not because it was in violation of the ATC clearance, but only because the timing was a little too close. This happens often at busy airports since ATC has to keep the departures and arrivals going as expeditiously as they can to keep departures and arrivals flowing. You can’t land on a runway with another airplane still on it, even if it’s rolling and you have landing clearance - but once it’s airborne you’re fine.
The article says ATC sent AA around - and since AA was still about 1.5 miles on final (450 feet or so) there was no big safety issue, not a near-miss - no loss of separation by any stretch.
Also worth mentioning, passengers may be alarmed by the abruptness of the maneuver in a go-around (normal using the autothrottles/autopilot) but when the engines go to max power the engines are noisier, the deck angle is steeper, and the climb rate is higher - all contributing to a startle factor for the passengers.
I didn’t listen to an ATC feed but I don’t see why this is such a newsworthy issue, even though it was DCA, unless someone (ATC or the departing aircraft) violated a clearance, and right now I see no indication of that.
Or, as others have mentioned, an effort to blame Trump for chaos in the skies.
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/aa2246
Never reported before, unless it was catastrophic.
The old DEI rule. Never report it unless someone gets killed. (And then, only if somebody saw what happened.)
Pilot of plane departing license reads I.R. Pilot.
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