See exactly when a landing plane almost crashes into another [video]

On a typical airport day, dozens and dozens of flights arrive and depart in a normal routine for air traffic controllers, and can be more stressful on busy days. Everything is done to the utmost safety to ensure nothing happens on landings and takeoffs.

However, sometimes certain occurrences can surprise airport professionals and almost end up in tragedy. This is what happened recently at Barcelona airport in Spain.

All seemed well when the pilot of a Boeing 767 of the Russian airline UTair guided the aircraft to the final approach landing on the runway. But suddenly another plane - an Airbus A340 from Aerolíneas Argentinas - came taxiing and crossing the same runway, and it should by no means be in that place right now.

With that, the Boeing pilot quickly lifted the nose of the plane and launched the flight before even touching the ground to avoid a possible disaster. Watch below.

And the images of this situation were captured by Miguel Ángel's camera (who posted the video on Youtube) at the El Prat Airport runway. A few minutes after hitting, the UTair aircraft landed safely while Aerolíneas' flight took off to Buenos Aires.

Despite being a tense situation, hitting flights is not exceptionally rare. As pilot Patrick Smith reported to Mashable, this may be a harrowing maneuver for passengers, but it is a routine experience, albeit a little stressful for pilots.

However, raids like this can be much more dangerous. In 2005, a US Airways Boeing 737 and an Aer Lingus Airbus A330 were released to take off from intersecting runways in Boston. However, for very few meters they did not collide at takeoff.

According to the Daily Mail, Captain John Holmes, flight training manager at Ansett Aviation, told the Sydney Morning Herald that there are three possible explanations for the error. "The instructions for the A340 may have been misunderstood by the pilot or they may not have heard or recognized the instructions, or there may have been no measurements from the control tower, " he said.

The Spanish Airports and Air Navigation Agency (AENA), which is responsible for airports in Spain, issued a statement saying that there was never any danger of a collision and that there was enough space to land between the two planes. Really?