Dangerous Flight Maneuvers at U.S. Airports?

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SelectPlusDangerous Flight Maneuvers at U.S. Airports?Dangerous Flight Maneuvers at U.S. Airports?The Associated PressEach year thousands of planes are forced to pull up at runways at major American cities. The maneuver is called a 'go around.' As Ted Shaffrey reports, some are concerned about the safety of this practice.((Newark, NJ)) Last December Howard Kronberg (Krawn-berg) was a passenger on a flight about to touch down at the airport in Newark, New Jersey, when he feared his life was over. ((Howard Kronberg, Airline Passenger)) "It's a catastrophic accident waiting to happen." The pilot was forced to pull up suddenly, aborting the landing, because another plane hadn't cleared the runway ahead of it. "We immediately climbed drastically to altitude." NATS: go around. They are called "go arounds" and they happen thousands of times a year at U-S airports, according to an Associated Press review of tower logs from eight of the nation's busiest airports. It's when air traffic controllers clear a plane to land but have to abort the landing, and order the plane to circle around. They are a symptom of severe air traffic congestion. At some airports, controllers say they increase the risk of a mid-air collision with another aircraft. NATS: Controllers like Mike Reilly, who works at Newark Liberty International Airport, say they are unavoidable. ((Michael Reilly, Air Traffic Controller)) "You got a get it right the first time, if you don't, you gotta take the safe route and send one around T AKE VO: You better be good, and we are good, but it's not fun, it gets your adrenaline going, a little too much going." Controllers say they are under a lot of pressure to keep traffic moving. "There's pressure, the airlines gotta spend a lot of money on gas these days, the more they are in the air, the more gas they are using, they want the planes on the ground." With growing demand from the public for air travel, it's not clear how the congestion problem can be fixed. And from airport to airport, controllers say there are no clear cut procedures how to deal with "go arounds." "we wanna do it standardized, not by the seat of our pants, which is what we're doing now." The F-A-A says it is reviewing "go around" procedures at several U-S airports, after the N-T-S-B called "go around" procedures at some of them, deficient. Something passengers like Howard Kronberg say they already knew. Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, Newark, New Jersey

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Uploaded: July 3, 2008 at 5:31 am
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freakybuzz (Friday 3rd of October 2008 12:55:33 AM)
Life-threatening go around? Please! Next thing you know, they'll be complaining about the headache-compounding missed approach, or the gastro-intestinal complicating crosswind landing, the hangnail inducing holding pattern, or Heaven forbid, the shirt wrinkling LAHSO.
slovely08 (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 02:14:45 AM)
He feared his life was over?!?!?!?! That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Think of the incident at Hamburg when the plane suddenly banked to the left and scraped the wing tip. Nobody reported fearing for their LIVES.
gehlenc (Monday 1st of September 2008 01:46:06 PM)
Poor passenger, he'll better take the car next time.
italiano100 (Sunday 10th of August 2008 12:55:27 AM)
ohh god come on this guy cant be serious "Drastic climb rate" stop being such a sissy and suck it up.. i cant stand people that complain about something thats going to save their life.. get real
fishercollin (Monday 14th of July 2008 04:44:53 PM)
heres a question...go around, or crash? I think the answer is simple.
alexfromnb (Sunday 13th of July 2008 01:59:43 PM)
I am a retired Swissair MD-11 captain. Go-arounds are a normal procedure when pilots or controllers believe a hazard exists, or if the pilot experiences a problem while on approach. Parallel runway GAs are easy. Perpendicular runway operations bring additional concerns as flight paths may potentially cross. This is why pilots train constantly to anticipate the unexpected and take corrective action. More than likely, this passenger was never in any danger whatsoever.
xprtmarksman (Sunday 13th of July 2008 01:57:38 PM)
Great to see so many people posting about a clip with level heads on their shoulders, maybe there's hope for mankind after all. In reference to BFHProductions' comment, I'm assuming they were in a hurry to find a scary looking landing and just shoved it into the beginning of the story for dramatic effect. The dumbass passenger at the beginning proves how not just everyone has the common sense to be a controller or a pilot.
cyberi4a (Wednesday 9th of July 2008 03:09:34 PM)
The Associated Press and any station that runs this video should be ashamed of themselves. Aren't most go arounds due to bad weather? They act like a go around is something new. Guess these idiots aren't smart enough to know go arounds have been happening since the beginning of flight when a pilot didn't think they could land the first time they tried.
poppi11 (Tuesday 8th of July 2008 11:19:26 PM)
this is quite possibly the most misleading video I have ever seen. I'm a pilot for DL, and yesterday we actually had to do a go around at ATL. I was flying a B777, loaded with passengers and cargo. A small CRJ 900 had yet to clear the runway, so we couldn't land. Would you rather go into clear skies or slam into a CRJ? I think the first option. Just wanted to show you the pilot's point of view of this video.
68mnap (Tuesday 8th of July 2008 07:33:37 PM)
BS.