Sunday 28th vs901 go around?

Just wondering if anyone knows if the Sunday Tokyo flight performed a go around at LHR? Reason for asking is that I was enjoying sitting in the garden on a sunny afternoon and it flew pretty low over the house ( Rickmansworth area) with a helicopter very close to it, almost as if the helicopter was performing some sort of inspection! I grabbed the iPad and got onto flightradar24 to try to identify the flight (hence the Tokyo reference) and its flight path seemed to indicate it had had a go around. Can anyone confirm? Thanks.

[honey lamb]

The go-around was probably for some other reason than the helicopter. Distances can be deceptive and it probably is more likely to have been because an aircraft was slow in leaving the runway or because the degree of separation was not right.

Yeah, was having the same 'discussion' with the wife, it was real close though and directly overhead- never seen it before. I'm just frustrated I couldn't get a pic in time. We are flying on vs017 on Friday and my 2 daughters started to panic that we might be on the same plane- showed them the vflyer toolbox and the explained there is on average 1 go around each day at lhr to calm their nerves! Cheers for the reply.

[honey lamb]

Smiffy, I am directly under a transatlantic flight path, albeit at much higher altitudes than Rickmansworth! :0

When the Shanwick ATC decrees that the route should be over the south of Ireland, the amount of planes that criss-cross would put the heart crossways in you if you didn't know about degrees of separation! |:)

The go-around was probably for some other reason than the helicopter. Distances can be deceptive and it probably is more likely to have been because an aircraft was slow in leaving the runway or because the degree of separation was not right.

for a rookie like me is degree of separation to do with the distance between aircraft on approach?
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[honey lamb]

The go-around was probably for some other reason than the helicopter. Distances can be deceptive and it probably is more likely to have been because an aircraft was slow in leaving the runway or because the degree of separation was not right.

for a rookie like me is degree of separation to do with the distance between aircraft on approach?
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Yes and it depends on a set of variables as to how much that is - the size of the aircraft that has landed prior to the incoming one, weather and others that I can't currently remember.

Yes and it depends on a set of variables as to how much that is - the size of the aircraft that has landed prior to the incoming one, weather and others that I can't currently remember.

Thanks for that HL
Much appreciated

We thought something was going on Sunday afternoon as well. I live in Essex and we quite often get aircraft that have come from the East coming over our house, I've worked out they are roughly about 35 minutes from landing at LHR when we see them.

But Sunday afternoon there was a lot of aircraft turning right above our house before straightening out. There was also a lot of smaller aircraft as well coming into LHR that we don't normally see.

Flightradar24 was working overtime in my garden Sunday y)