Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident was captured on video Saturday morning. Two passenger planes nearly collided in the footage of Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident as one airliner taxied across the runway while another was coming in to land.
The Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident was caught via video by a plane enthusiast named Miguel Angel Saturday, reports CTV News.
According to the news station, a 767 operated by Russian airline UTair was coming in to land Saturday when suddenly, a transatlantic Aerolineas Argentinas plane crossed its path in preparation for takeoff. The Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident was a heart-stopping moment as both jets were known to have carried hundreds of passengers. The incident could have ended tragically and involved the lives of the passengers.
Fortunately, the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident stayed a near collision incident as a UTair crew decided upon a last-minute act which prevented both planes to end up in what experts call a 'certain major disaster'.
The Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident video shows a plane on its way to final landing approach. The plane applied all its power in order to pull itself up and avoid landing while the other aircraft was on blocking its path. The Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident video showed the two planes only a few hundred yards apart before the near collision. The plane which avoided its landing was a Boeing 767 arriving from Moscow, which was travelling at 150mph, and the other plane was an Airbus A340 from Argentina taxiing on the runway, reports news.com.au.
As a result of the quick-thinking pilot aboard the Boeing, the two planes were spared from a major disaster and the airliner from Moscow eventually landed safely.
According to reports, some pilots who saw the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident footage have estimated the Russian plane to be just 100ft above the ground when the its pilot luckily pulled away. He then performed a 'go around' and shortly afterwards brought his aircraft on ground safely.
After taking the footage of the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident, Angel posted the video online, which surprisingly caught the attention of more than a million viewers.
In the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident video, Angel can be heard whispering 'Oh my God' in Spanish. According to Angel, the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident was 'one of the worst experiences I have ever had'.
Meanwhile, other witnesses of the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident said such occurrences are already a regular in the airport. One witness reportedly told a Spanish newspaper, 'I know the guy who took the video and he's told me it's the fourth time he's seen something like this.'
As a result of the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident taking so much attention around the world, the Independent Spanish civil aviation accident investigators have announced that they would be investigating the incident. Airport chiefs have also promised to take action, despite trying to play down the incident in an earlier report.
According to CTV News, a Spanish Airports and Air Navigation spokesman said there was never really any danger of a real collision since there was clearly enough space between the two aircraft.
He said the 'go-around' done by the Russian pilot during the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident was already a standard procedure. In addition, neither airlines involved appeared to have made a formal complaint.
However, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority addressed the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident and said that if it had occurred in Britain, it would already have been classified as a 'runway incursion' and immediately looked into by their Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident came days after another event of the same magnitude near the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, reports news.com.au. Apparently, a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 flew too close to a Delta Air Lines A320 on Thursday, just before 7pm. Fortunately, air traffic controllers caught the error early on and thus corrected the planes' courses. The deadliest collision of two planes along a runway happened in 1977, when 583 reportedly people died after a KLM plane smashed into a Pan Am jet at Tenerife airport.
Below is a video of the Barcelona El Prat Airport near miss incident.
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