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At least they don't have to pay an extra landing fee for a 'touch and go' as part of a go-around! ;)
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mike travis,

What you experienced was simply a 'go-around'.

mike travis wrote:
Air Traffic Control have given him permission to land!

mike travis wrote:
The pilot appologised saying he had aborted the landing because the ground control were not ready for us to land.

There are many air traffic controllers, eg director, approach, tower. Only the airports control tower can give landing clearance. Director / approach control will line aircraft up on the approach path before handing them over to the tower once they are established on the ILS or whatver procedure is on operation. Even though you are on approach, if the airport is busy, you may not have landing clearance until late in to the landing sequance. It's likely a landing aircraft in front hadn't cleared the runway in time so a go-around was initiated. ATC will have waited until the last moment to issue late landing clearance in order to get you in but when it wasn't going to work, the go-around command will have been given. It's a routine procedure. The topic Kiltman refers you to above explains all.

Darren
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Read the suggested topic with interest. We too experienced an aborted landing into Manchester last November. We were as close to being down as you can without touching the ground when we suddenly shot back up into the air. We circled for a couple of minutes and then the co-pilot made an announcement explaining that there had been another aircraft on the runway! We finally landed only to stop at the edge of the runway as smoke was reported coming from one of the engines and they needed to be checked before we could move into our gate. It proved to be absolutely nothing, but as you can imagine we were more than happy to get off the plane in one piece.

What I found most scary was the absolute silence in the cabin as we shot back up into the air; there was none of the screaming, etc you see in films.
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