Flight into Burbank Airport aborts landing last minute, does a go-around, passenger says

“The ordered runway wasn’t quite clear when we were going to touch down there, so we had to go-around,” the pilot told passengers.

BURBANK, Calif. () — Cellphone video captured the moment a pilot announced that a flight set to land at Hollywood Burbank Airport on Thursday would need to do a go-around, aborting the initial planned landing.

Passengers aboard a Southwest Airlines flight were arriving from Las Vegas around 3 p.m. when the pilot of the Boeing 737 suddenly aborted the landing and did a go-around instead. One passenger said the wheels briefly touched the ground before the plane took off again at a steep incline.

An Eyewitness News viewer shared a video of the announcement made over the plane’s intercom system.

“Hey folks, just a quick update. The ordered runway wasn’t quite clear when we were going to touch down there, so we had to go-around. Now, we will get back in line and another probably five or 10 minutes here, and we’ll be landing,” the pilot said.

Eyewitness News reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to learn more about what was on the runway preventing the flight from landing on its first attempt, but has not heard back.

SEE ALSO: FAA investigating close call between plane and military helicopter at John Wayne Airport

The incident happened the same day the FAA announced an investigation after a Blackhawk helicopter crossed right into the flight path of a United Airlines flight coming in for landing at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport (SNA).

The close call happened between a United Boeing 737 with 168 passengers onboard, and a military Blackhawk that flight data shows took off from Joint Forces Training Base Los Alamitos on Tuesday evening.

An anti-collision alert was triggered in the United cockpit because at their closest point, the jet and helicopter were separated by just 500 feet vertically and 1,400 feet horizontally.