Dramatic video shows 'near miss' at Barcelona airpor

An ostensible near miss between two aircraft that was captured on video at Barcelona Airport has prompted an investigation by Spanish aviation ascendant entities.
The video shows a Boeing 767 belonging to Russian airline UTair pulling up from its landing approach as an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 taxis across its path.
No one was injured in the incident and the UTair plane was able to circle round and make a safe landing five minutes later.
The video, shot on Saturday, had gained proximately two million YouTube hits by Monday.
Spain's airport ascendancy, AENA, verbalized the regime's Committee on Civil Aviation Incidents and Accidents would look into the incident.
A Barcelona airport AENA spokeswoman told CNN that the UTair pilot had been cleared to land but exercised his ascendancy to abort.
She verbalized the Aerolineas Argentinas flight withal had sanction to taxi across the runway. She did not comment on the timing of its maneuver.
The spokeswoman verbalized there had been no impact peril and the perspective of the video did not show that there was plenty of space between the two aircraft.
It was "not about a collision or a possible collision," she verbalized, integrating that neither airline had submitted a complaint over the incident.
CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien verbally expressed that, according to plans of the airport, the two planes had been about half a mile apart at the time of the incident.
"That verbalized, you optically discern they had to perform a go-around and if you've ever been in an airliner that has to performed a go-around, it gets your attention," he verbally expressed.
O'Brien verbalized air crews on the ground should check to visually perceive if the flightpath is pellucid afore crossing a runway as a component of standard protocols.
"What we can verbally express here is the system did ultimately work -- the last resort that is, but there was a series of mistakes... that led to this."
Aerolineas Argentinas in Madrid referred calls to its headquarters in Buenos Aires, where CNN's efforts to reach anyone at the press office, through the switchboard and three direct lines, were unsuccessful after reiterated endeavors.
In a verbalization, UTair verbalized the pilot of its flight from Moscow to Barcelona had been following the ordinant dictations of Barcelona airport dispatchers.
"While lowering on a final approach track the commander found an obstacle on the runway (the aircraft of another airlines was crossing it)," it verbally expressed.
"The aircraft commander took prompt decision on the implementation of standard operating procedure -- go-around flight maneuver.
"The maneuver was carried out in the mundane mode, the landing was prosperous, none of the passengers was injured.
In this situation, the commander well judged and adequately assessed the situation, exhibiting at the same time composure and professional excellence.
"According to international rules aircraft while performing approach has an absolute priority over all the aircraft located on the ground."
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