V-Flyer

Here is a link to a video of a go around at BCN yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5THRSp4hM

Good grief ! Someone wasn't doing their job properly !!!

Well if you happen to stumble across a link to the ATC for it (assuming it is made publicly available) that would be good. I guess we will have to wait for the incident report if not.

http://avherald.com/h?article=476e99b0&opt=0

A report today from the AvHerald.

wow that was close
interesting though.as the exact same thing happen in a tv drama we were watching tonight. a rookie ATCs instructions were ignored.and the plane continued on to the runway which forced the go around.

Strewth! That was close.

"The habit of taxiing across runway 02 without paying attention to the holding points for runway 02 has already caused a number of runway incursions."

And paying attention to incoming planes too ! Look left, look right, oh ****!"

Looks like a perfectly safely operated go around due to runway incursion, of a type that happens more regularly than you might think. I've been on two, and the most interesting thing on a VS 747 into SFO was how quickly the engines spooled up to go around thrust, and how confused the map on the IFE got!

Perhaps ATC thought the seperation was sufficiient, or it was an incident that will be investigated.

The updated report on AvHerald states that ATC have confirmed that the minimum seperation was within limits which also tends to suggest that the pilot of the taxiing aircraft was cleared to enter the runway.
Maybe the camera angle gives the illusion of it looking closer than it actually was, but it certainly looks like a go around was the right call.
Two of the go arounds I've experienced in the last few years were both at BCN, one on BA and the other on EZY.
Maybe it's just coincidental but ATC at BCN certainly look like they work to the absolute limits!

In the UK thus appears to be a close miss but here in Spain where the health and safety brigade haven't arrived this was nothing close to be an incident. It's a far more relaxed view of life.

Ps

I supposed if the 767 had landed and swerved around the 340 you may have heard a slight gasp from the ATC

A go around is always the correct call. Always easy to be wise after the event.