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missed approach

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  • noun aviation A failure of a pilot to properly land an aircraft due to various factors, requiring a go-around for the next attempt.

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  • Also: "go around". When an instrument approach is made in low-visibility conditions, say, thick fog, and the runway environment is not seen by the pilots when the descent to land can go no lower, a missed approach (MA) is accomplished. MAs can occur for many other reasons, all, in essence, because of an unsafe condition (e.g., another aircraft already on the runway; misalignment with the runway; airspeed out of limits, some malfunction of required aircraft equipment, et al.).

    January 6, 2007