Plane has to abort landing and rapidly accelerate at Boston’s Logan airport because of a jet still on the runway

• United Airlines Flight 2267 had to perform a ‘go-around’ on September 11, right before landing due to an aircraft standing in its place
• The flight took off from Chicago ‘s O’Hare and was 200 feet off the ground when it was asked to terminate its landing
• Many passengers panicked and one was even pushed back into their seat

Passengers on a United flight into Boston got quite the scare and were thrust back into their seats when their plane had to abort its landing because another jet was on the runway. 

The United Airlines Flight 2267 pilot had to perform a ‘go-around’ at 10.45pm on September 11, right before landing at Boston’s Logan Airport due to an aircraft standing in its place. 

A go-around is described as a decision made by pilots to not continue an approach, or not to continue a landing and follow procedures to for another approach.

Due to how sudden the go-around occurred, many passengers panicked and one was even pushed back into their seat in the moment. 

One passenger told Boston 25: ‘People on the plane gasped at the rapid pull-up and the roar of the engines as the rapid change in speed and trajectory pushed us backward into our seats and we saw the tarmac and land rapidly disappear under us.’

Although, the Federal Aviation Administration describes a go-around as a safe and routine procedure, it has begun investigating into the incident.

The flight took off from Chicago’s O’Hare International and was 200 feet off the ground when it was asked to terminate its landing, as per the data from FlightAware. It ended up landing at the airport at 11.02pm instead of its original arrival time of 10.45pm.  

The passenger detailed the ordeal after the incident. 

‘Once we were back high in the sky circling, the pilot came on the loudspeaker and said something like, “The runway… uh… was not able to be cleared of planes in time for us… uh…. we had to pull up and will circle for a bit and land shortly,'” the  passenger recounted. 

In an audio recording obtained by Boston 25, the air traffic controller told the pilot, ‘Sorry about that. An aircraft was still on the runway.’

When a go-around occurs, the air traffic controller and pilot are said to be working together to ‘prevent an unsafe condition from occurring.’ 

While a simple emergency go-around had passengers panicking, another United flight from Newark to Rome had passengers praying for their life. 

Flight data revealed that UAL510, a Boeing 777 travelling from Newark Liberty International Airport to Rome-Fiumicino International Airport, went from an altitude of 37,000 ft to 8,700 ft in just ten minutes on September 13. 

The plane circled twice over Nova Scotia, Canada, at a stable altitude at around 10:30pm before it flew back home. 

The plane, which was carrying 270 passengers and 14 crew members, flew back to Newark to ‘address a possible loss of cabin pressure’, a United Airlines spokesperson said. 

‘The flight landed safely and there was never any loss of cabin pressure,’ the spokesperson said.

United Airlines said that the travelers on the plane were eventually flown to Italy on another airplane.  

The in-air chaos comes as US airlines have slammed the FAA for not employing enough staff, leading to hundreds of delayed or canceled flights during a record-setting travel season.