A "go-around" maneuver is performed when a pilot must abort or reject landing on the final approach or once the aircraft has already touched down.

Image via Shutterstock Remind me not to fly to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. An Army Black Hawk helicopter almost collided with a plane not once but twice last week. The airport suffered two near misses with the Black Hawk.

The Jan. 29 collision over the Potomac River in Washington, DC — which preliminary reports have blamed on the military Black Hawk flying too high — was the deadliest US air disaster since 2001, and caused officials to change the flight path of helicopters near the airport.