{"id":403877,"date":"2026-04-12T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/british-airways-airbus-a380-lands-too-late-touch-go-london\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:00:18","slug":"safe-than-sorry-british-airways-airbus-a380-lands-too-late-performs-touch-go-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403877","title":{"rendered":"Safe Than Sorry: British Airways Airbus A380 Lands Too Late, Performs Touch &amp; Go In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"77388\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-airways\/\"  >British Airways<\/a><\/span> Airbus A380 arrival at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) has handed aviation watchers an extremely timely reminder that a pilot&#8217;s decision to perform a go-around is not a mistake, but rather a safety decision on its own. Footage of this incident shared online appears to show the superjumbo touching down long before powering back into the air, turning a tense arrival directly into a textbook example of caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident is certainly rather unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,396,476,1513,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403921,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403877\/revisions\/403921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}