Passengers have described the moment when a landing had to be aborted at Manchester Airport when another aircraft taxied across the runway.
The drama happened as Vueling flight VY8750 from Barcelona was on its final approach into Manchester Airport on Saturday afternoon.
With just seconds before it was due to touch down, the captain aborted the landing and applied extra power, climbing steeply away from the airfield.
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The pilot told passengers he had been forced to make the manoeuvre as another aircraft was taxiing across the landing strip.
The captain carried out a standard 'go around' where the jet completed a loop taking it over Sale and Manchester before coming back to the airport over Hyde and Stockport.
Airport bosses stressed the incident was not being classed as a 'near miss' as the two jets were considered too far apart.
One businessman on board the Vueling flight told the M.E.N: "I'm a regular flyer but I've never experienced anything like that. The captain pulled up and I was thinking oh for god's sake, it's because of the weather and we're being diverted somewhere else.
It was a bit bumpy but not that bad.
"But after he had gone up, the Spanish pilot came on. He apologised and said he had had to abort the landing because an aircraft had come across the runway right in front of us.
"There wasn't that much panic. Everybody was quite calm. I think passengers were a little bit shocked to be honest. The captain said we'd go around and we'd be on the ground in a few minutes."
A spokeswoman for Manchester Airport confirmed an aircraft had carried out a 'standard go-around', stressing that it had not been classified as a 'near miss' because there was sufficient space between the landing jet and the aircraft which crossed the runway.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch routinely investigates incidents such as near misses where the required 'separation' between aircraft has been breached.
