Because conditions could’ve changed in the matter of seconds, as usually observed during cyclones. From the time the ATC gives a go-ahead, the flight can still encounter difficulty landing.
It’s entirely up to the pilot. Wind can change in seconds, meaning unwise to land or there could be a piece of matter on the runway needing cleared. It’s not the tower decision
In this situation do you even attempt an auto land or is this all flying by the butt cheeks? I figure it's like cruise control, you don't use it unless things are nice out.
why the hell would you ride the ground effect? maybe for a little to get some speed but in any videos I see of go around they are an instant pull up to gain altitude as the engines are literally designed for that.
You haven’t explained yourself in any of your comments. Just blaming pilots without any evidence.
I have over 1500 real flying hours.. what credentials do you own that give you the insight to determine from a 30 second video that the pilots caused the plane to behave that way?
Which, by the way, would be cause for the pilots to have to go in front of a board. Putting the lives of everyone else at risk because “pilots did shit job” is not taken lightly by any means.
You telling me a pilot can rock a plane like that on purpose and can decide to just perform a go around for no reason? That is an emergency maneuver.
When you get close to the ground the wind changes because buildings and other things start to mask and change it. Seemed like he came in pretty hot too because of the storms and it might have changed and wasn't a headwind. Definitely not a very stabilized approach.
I don’t understand that either, he would have been in contact with the ground crew who are constantly watching the weather and conditions. It shouldn’t have been on the pilot to figure this out.
It's not exactly on the pilot entirely. It's a group effort. But pilots, in general, have a certain privilege to make last-minute decisions on the fly. Everything can be and is second guessed after the fact, but a plane in flight is not a democracy when it comes to the control of that plane.
It's not on the pilot, but if the pilot senses something isn't right the practice is to trust that instinct in the moment. The risk of erring on the side of safety is inconvenience, the risk of not is tragedy.
Except winds can change in less than a second, which the ground crew cannot anticipate or even watch out for. It's hard to tell in the video, but it looks like a sudden downdraft pushed down on the plane (this is my personal observation considering how hard and how quickly the plane suddenly moved downward), and instead of allowing the down draft to push his plane into the runway hard enough to cause potentially a fatal accident, the pilot spooled up the engines again to perform a go-around.
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u/JanB1 26d ago
That muust've been quite butt clenching. But why did they try to land in the first place?