Aborted landing on a commercial flight?

[100%TtId]

Have you ever personally been on a commercial airline flight and had an aborted landing, i.e. plane on approach within 1 mile of the runway and pilot hits the gas and circles around for another attempt to land?

I’ve never been on one but I’m told it happens about 1 in a 1000 commercial landings. Looking at adsbexchange recently and I’ve just happened to see a half-dozen and only one might be attributed to high crosswind. The others just looked like the pilot couldn’t get aligned to the runway.

Is this normal?

[WyoBull]

Happened twice to me here in Casper over the years. We get a lot of wind during the winter and both times cross winds blew the plane side ways off the runway when we were about to land.
It will make you pucker going through that experience.

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[ctom87]

We had one coming into DCA in 2017. It was already the most stressful landing i had been apart of, very bad turbulence on the approach. I can't remember if it was the cross wind or a wind sheer, but we got hit with something and the pilot floored it.

One thing not often thought of is that wind blows on 3 different axes (axii? Axises?) It is the ones blowing the plane down toward the ground that are scary.

[flywise]

I saw one in Lincoln Nebraska just about touch down then poured the coals to it. Wind was not bad and I didn’t see any reason for it to happen. I thought they would do a go around but they never came back. I guess it was just practice.
Not common at 90% of the airports if I had to guess. But there are plenty of places with high winds or very low overcast conditions

[RJK70]

Yep! First time this summer flying into San Juan. My wife and I were like *** is going on.

Then about ten minutes later they come on and say they felt it was too close to another in coming flight.


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[Greenheadless]

Had it happen 2 or 3 times I can remember. All coming into O’Hare if I remember correctly.

[bbbuck]

Was landing at Cleveland International once and just before landing he goosed it, apparently another airline was taking off on the same runway. Flew over Lake Erie and landed on second attempt.

Another time flying to Shemya AFB located by Russia the pilot said we my not be able to land due to weather, winter snow storm. He decided to try, He said we are going to go in at a 90 degree angle and make a sharp turn to land. Holy cow that was by far the roughest ride in the air I have experienced.

[HuntForHorns]

Happened to me many years ago landing in St. Louis. We were not far off the ground when they pulled up. I don't remember why they did it.

I am scared to fly anyway and this scared the crap out of me.

[TreyRo]

Once landing at John Wayne in Orange County. Crazy feeling when the throttle gets hammered. Made me and my boss sitting next to me uneasy for sure.

[TKRanch]

Happened to me once back when I used to fly ALOT. Also wish it would have happened one more time as I had the hardest landing ever in Corpus Christi on my way to a Nilgai hunt that I have ever had and I flew ALOT for years, more than 70K miles a year, but in Corpus we hit so hard that the lights disconnected from the top of the inside of the cabin, almost all of the above seat luggage compartments came open, luggage went everywhere and the hit to the ground made me feel like it was the "end"!!!

[lost cajun]

Happened to me coming into Ft. Lauderdale. Felt like we were just a few feet from touchdown and the pilot hammers it and takes off. Said crosswinds wouldn’t allow us to land. Circled and tried again. Same thing. Just feet off the ground and he guns it. The plane was silent. Third time we touched down to the cheers of the whole plane. Scary feeling for sure!


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[Burnadell]

It happened to us on takeoff in El Salvador in the late 70's. Just as the Taca Airlines plane was about to lift off the runway, the pilot shut it down, and we prayed it would stop before the end of the runway. There was a pilot sitting across the aisle from me, and I knew we were in trouble when I saw his white knuckles clutching the armrests. The plane taxied back to the terminal, and we waited in the plane for probably an hour watching from the windows as mechanics scurried around messing with one engine. We were all about to demand that we get off, but they did wind up putting us on another plane.

[Atfulldraw]

I used to fly weekly and only had a few of them over the years.

I'd much prefer a go-around to a rejected landing.

[bowhuntntxn]

Flying from San Diego to Vidalia had 2 of them. Both were for related. We were really close to the ground on both of them and the fog was so thick you couldnt see the ground from the window. When we bailed the pilot came on and said we were less than 100 ft from the ground but couldnt finish. We went south to a different airport and tried again with the same results. Super close to the ground but still no landing.
Wound up flying back to Bakersfield and landing in perfect conditions. Then having to bus all the way to our original destination in the middle of the night on new years eve. Fun times for sure.

[IowaHunter]

Twice in 36 years. Mexico City was last second pull up before touchdown in driving rain. Buffalo was the same but in strong winds and snow. Both made me pucker.