Aborted landing at Logan tonight
Edit: This got way more attention than I expected. I agree wholeheartedly that I wouldn’t have thought it nearly as much about this if not for the media fear/hype cycle. My reference to it being jarring was largely in the context of the FlexJet incident the day before. The pilot was very calm in delivering the message, but l didn’t know until the top comment below what actually happened, and my mind raced to worst case scenarios. My next flight is in 72 hours so I have that much time for a little data therapy on how safe flying still is.
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My AA flight from Dallas to Boston tonight had to abort landing maybe 50-100 feet (EDIT: Radar data says we were much higher per top comment!) from the ground due to a plane that hadn’t cleared the runway. Pilot came on and said the tower told them to abort at the last minute. We circled for 10 mins or so and then landed normally.
Pretty jarring experience after what’s happened the past few days (and weeks). Not really sure the point of the post, other than to say it hit a little harder to have it happen at my home airport. Anyone else on that flight? I fly pretty often and have only experienced one aborted landing before this and it was due to weather.