Air traffic controllers complained on Monday that the two planes, a Boeing 747 cargo plane and a 37-seat commuter jet, nearly collided when the cargo plane, which had been assigned to land, aborted the landing and went around for another try, crossing a perpendicular runway where the commuter jet was assigned to land.
It is similar to checking for blind spots before you change lanes: If you have anyone around you and your anticipated landing space, abort the jump.
If a landing is aborted, the rope is automatically recovered and can be used again.
April 1970: The Apollo 13 mission nearly ends in tragedy after an oxygen tank explodes and the moon landing is aborted.
The lunar landing was aborted, and the three men took refuge in the cramped lunar module cabin, as they looped around the Moon and headed precariously back toward Earth.
The hack that saved Apollo 13 Jesus Diaz | Gizmodo | 1 July 2014 An oxygen tank blew up; the moon landing was aborted; the astronauts moved to the lunar module.
When to let a pilot know his landing is aborted requires precision timing turn him away too soon and, given the nature of aerodynamics, the plane will smash into the deck or the water.
The optimal strategy is to provide a controlled abort landing into specified areas.
Thirty feet, the engine exhaust kicking up lunar dust, Armstrong has only seconds left to make a landing or to abort and return, by firing the ascent engine, to the command module.
Crash plane 'tried to abort landing' Jump to media player Pilots of the plane that crashed at San Francisco airport on Saturday tried to abort the landing seconds before touching down, US investigators say.
So it didn't seem to me there was much point in thinking of something to say if we'd have to abort landing".
