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Originally Posted by 767Jockey

I'm an airline pilot based in Newark. Go arounds are very common there. Usually in an effort to fit more aircraft into the same amount of tarmac, the controllers will occasionally bite off more than they can chew by spacing the aircraft too closely together, resulting inevitably in an aircraft landing and not being able to clear the runway before the one behind them lands. Once the trailing aircraft sees that the prior one won't clear in time, it's a go around. No big deal at all. Relax, it's an easy maneuver. Hey, it may have even been me doing it!

767, for which airline are you a pilot? Continental? I fly a lot in and out of Newark.