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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by bluGill on Friday October 10, 2025 @06:54PM (#45544756)
They are expected situations, but still a failure of the original plan.
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:37PM (#45546404)
They are not a failure of the original plan, they are a mandatory component of the original plan that if everything is nominal never gets executed. Every pilot on approach is ready for one or even more go-arounds and they happen quite frequently for a variety of reasons.

They happen a few hundred times per day at ~100 k flights.

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