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Caught On Tape - Stunning Near Miss On Barcelona Runway
Boeing has had a tough week or two - the scandal over Ex-Im bank - its cheap funding source of competitive advantage, this weekend's train derailment of Boeing fuselages, and now, in Barcelona, a 767 and an Airbus A340 battle for the same airpsace coming within a few hundred feet of total carnage.
The dramatic moment two planes almost collided on a runway in Barcelona has been captured on camera.
The footage reveals the near-miss between a Boeing 767 from Russian airline Utair and an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 at El Prat Airport in Spain.
It shows the Boeing coming in to land on the runway, making its final approach, as the Airbus, getting ready for a flight to Buenos Aires, taxis across its path.
The Boeing is forced to abort the landing, with the pilot carrying out an emergency 'go-around' procedure.
The jet, which had travelled from Russia, landed safely shortly afterwards.
It comes just days after two planes narrowly averted a midair crash near the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
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We can only hope Janet Yellen's 'macro-prudential' policies will be less of a near-miss of the total collapse in risk assets we suspect is coming...
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GDP woulda been higher with a collision.
--Krugsy
Based on the headline, I was hoping for a couple of top models bumping into one another....
Check passenger manifests!
Spain is also in both of these two stories (here at the top of ZH's current page).
ISIS and Air traffic control there in Barcelona. Maybe pick France for vacation this year.
Am I the only one who sees this but that pilot taxiing the plane looks a lot like the guy who smashed the Tesla?
George Carlin: Here's one they just made up: "near miss". When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss.
That was shot with a telephoto lens and distorts the appearance of the distance.
They were both under tower control and were not quite that close but although cleared to cross the runway the Airbus likely should have held short.
The Rooskie took the prudent route with a go-around.
The co-pilot should have told the pilot to hold short like you said.
He did. Then the pilot grabbed his own dick. You know; them Russkies...
(take that Vlad! We win!) /s
This is a such a funny place.
Just for the junk guy above, I’ll amend part of my statement..
The airbus (he had clearance) should have crossed the runway with thrust levers full forward.
If something is worth doing you should give it 100%.
Or.. look both ways before crossing the street.
I think it's more a funny place for the "experts"! Hey, I ain't a junk guy. Hell, I wasn't even replying to you. I was making a joke. And as far as junking is concerned I'm not trying to be that. I up arrow a lot of good comments. Why add narrative as well telling someone they're right? I'd be here all night.
But then there are those who's feet need to be held near the fire. They are too full of themselves. MANY here on ZH. I mean come on... telephoto lens? Really? Who'd a thunk.
I wasn’t replying to you specifically.. just whichever guy was stupid enough or felt compelled to vote down something so innocuous, but based in fact.
I hang here to mostly to learn a few things, comment and opine a little and to make cynical, sarcastic and satirical statements.
Most of time (with some noted exceptions) in good humor.
That was some funny shit!!
That's just plane scary.
lollololololol
Uh, the "Russkies" were the ones coming in for a landing.
That'll pucker your ass right quick.
It's going to smell kinda funny in the cockpit of that Boeing for a few days.
They can fly it remotely to Diego Garcia for clean up and disposal.
Heh. This is why I prefer to take a ferry to get from A to B over long distances. Then again, there aren't exactly many airports around here.
I'm guessing the air sickness bags in that plane weren't holding vomit...
And cause you to cough up some seat cover soon after.
As George Carlin pointed out years ago: It is not a near miss stupid. It is a near hit.
I swear that when before reading the article i thought,,must be Argentinian....and Bingo..
I ski with Argi Pilots all the time . Some of them are a mess.
that said VAMOS ARGENTINA mierda , carajo !,
Collisions will be an every day occurence if ISIS takes over.
Yeah with skyscraper. And said skyscrapers would collapse into their own foundations almost perfectly.
and another that fell in sympathy to the ones struck
Buildings have feelings too ya know!
@Oracle 911; don't be too proud. He served that up to you underhanded with no arc. And that collapse... it was about as perfect as you can get. 107 stories, and all folks got was a little dusty.
Somebody born again.
Another Keynesian GDP stimulating opportunity missed!
I don't believe in coincidence, with most airlines down the last days.
well, i guess that the staff cuts at the Control Tower could have become a very pricey gambling today. Always request a pilot... no drone please !
How you like that internet now!
I used to like it just fine until the junta here in Thailand decided to start censoring it. For some reason, this clip is being blocked here. This place is in deep shit.
A.) for some reason? You don't know? Well, you my friend are the one in deep shit. Try to keep up. Here; use a proxy server, and do a little creative searching about certain... folks.
B). A country is in deep shit when they block The Daily Mail? My, what's next... The fucking STAR?
Actually if you think this place is in deep shit, you need to take a vacation back in your home country (I'm guessing here... stars and stripes? OK, I missed) and then return. Thailand is now better than ever. No more Democracy. Or was that supposed to be the answer? Hell, hasn't worked here, and hasn't worked well wherever you're from - wherever.
Daddy has taken over, and if you don't watch it we're gonna pull your IP address and come over to your room off Sukhumvit.
While I'm at it, C). Just go to that new website, http://www (don't forget the w's) youtube.com/
the clip seems to be almost professionally done, almost as thought they were anticipating something /s
pilot crossing the runway must have been using his cell phone
Texting?
Sexting?
"Ease off the throttle. Let me get a selfie out the cabin window with that Boeing in the background flaps down...."
Nice!
That ISIS invasion idea is geting worse by the second.
This could be control tower or pilot error. I don't know if Barcelona has ground traffic radar or not, but often the tower relies on the pilots of taxiing planes to inform them that they have reached a certain point and are then told to proceed or not. It is clear the plane landing was on an approved approach with another plane a few minutes behind him.
For example, no taxiing pilot crosses a runway without permission from the control tower. Yet it appears the pilot on the ground just blew through the runway without stopping first. We will get an initial report in a few weeks and a final report within the year. For now it is all speculation.
No way CD.
I fault the pilot. Even if he was cleared by Tower to take the runway (which - don't get me wrong - would be bad), he had a clear view of the inbound traffic from his cockpit. That he took the active without looking for traffic is simply unconscionable to me. Shame on that captain and his 1st officer.
Like I said the pilot of the taxiing plane appeared to blow thru the runway cross. I got a chuckle from those other commenters blaming Boeing. First it was an Airbus plane on the ground and second that is like blaming the car company when the driver runs a red light.
Flying is getting to be risky business.
SOmeone onc esuggested here that the large hadron collider messed with the "probability matrix", or as I understood it then, shifted the basis of the bell curve.
Regardless, things seems to be getting close, in general.
And Hundred Year Storms seem to come along every few years.
Someone does seem to be messing with the probability matrix, but history suggests it's less likely to be the latest science machine, and more likely to be politicians and newspaper editors in a smoke-filled room.
Things just aren't run as well as they were in the past. It's noticeable across the board. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is leaking into air traffic control and flying.
Absolutely. Just because something is extremely important doesn't mean government won't make a mess of it.
wi tu lo
Respect Russian pilots!
Maybe ISIS can do a better job managing air traffic
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-07/isis-latest-and-most-ambitious-...
I believe the plane coming in at 200 mph has the right of way.
Paradox or insanity: The same people that say that they need to feel people up, including grandmas and 3-year olds, for "your protection," are the same ones controlling air-traffic.
Don't think so.
But yes, structural incompetence is the new black. Professionalism in any sphere is all but dead.
Flight 727, hold your pattern, I am feeling up a hot young chick. Standby.
They are lucky it wasn't a near hit..... that would have been bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKdvTecYAM
Hopefully Spanish unemployment is up by 1+ tomorrow.
What do the makes of the aircraft have to do with this incident? The pilots and controllers aren't employed by Boeing or Airbus. Boeing had nothing to do with this runway incursion.
That probably depends on how automated the landing sequence is and who runs that system.
At least in this case the pilots in the airbourne plane still know how to fly.
That's why you shouldn't run those yellow lights!
If Isis invades, employment will bounce pretty high, but they'll all be government jobs, like infantryman...
Now, why is that video footage a perfect metaphor for the world economy over the last 6 years?
"What's the vector Victor?"
I like gladiator movies.
They didn't get clearance, Clarence!
Obviously instead of a hold short command, the pilot on the ground thought that ATC told him to hold shart, and it's a safe bet he sharted after realizing what happened.
Kudos to the incoming for quick thinking, it's obvious from the clip he went full power with room to spare and the training kicked in.
Crash is imminent, then power up!
Just like the Fed does with the stock market.
Is this yet another example of outdated ATC systems? I believe I read recently that the Juneau, Alaska airport was forced to upgrade its ATC or face risk of losing its state-capital status because of its difficult weather/visibility. With the new upgrades, not only could pilots get a better picture of what was around them, it saved something like 2,000 flights from being cancelled.
Maybe it's time for an upgrade?
Luckily the landing plane was a Boeing - if that had been an Airbus the computer might have decided "sorry Mr. Pilot, you cannot rev up the engines like that during a final landing approach!"
apologies that -1 may have been my fat fingers damn iPad mini
Red means stop, green means go and yellow means go as fast as possible.
Did I see the UT pilot sticking his arm out the window giving the Texas IQ sign?
Fuck you, Daily Mail Online.
I get to watch a 30 second commercial with some middle-aged mutt eating Raisin Bran with his mistress, and then you say "can't connect to server."
Your Raisin Bran clickbait server seems to work fine.
Meat-boiling warm beer-serving damp socialist hooligans.
Soooo...I'm supposed to spend $900 to risk my life and get felt up by the TSA? No thanks...I'll stick to my car.
My car engine hydro-locks too easily.
Was that that Malaysian plane taxiing around.....still lost.