Flight Aborts Landing At DC National To Avoid Aircraft

CNN reports:

An American Airlines flight arriving at Ronald Reagan National Airport was forced to abort its landing to avoid another aircraft Tuesday, officials said, less than a month after a midair collision killed 67 people near the same airport and roughly 90 minutes before a close call between a passenger plane and a private jet in Chicago. The Tuesday incident at the Washington, DC, airport happened around 8:20 a.m. as American Airlines Flight 2246, en route from Boston, was preparing to land, the FAA said.

Air traffic control instructed the American Airlines flight to perform a go-around to “ensure separation was maintained between this aircraft and a preceding departure from the same runway,” the FAA told CNN. A go-around is a routine maneuver that allows an aircraft to safely make an alternate landing “at the discretion of a pilot or at the request of an air traffic controller,” the FAA said. The plane that was preparing to take off was moving, but still on the runway, by the time Flight 2246 started its go-around.

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