Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
Andrew Gideon wrote:

I have experienced controllers issuing a go-around.
I've also been the cause of this, I'm sorry to say, when a tire
failed on landing.

So if you've never experienced a controller issuing a go around,
then you are lacking in that experience. Lucky you.

So a blown tire means the controller didn't provide proper spacing?

Steven, I don't think anyone is saying that.

Proper spacing on final approach would be sufficient for the second
guy to have a suitably clear runway on which to land if the first one
has no problems and vacates the runway promptly.

However, if something *does* go wrong, the second guy may *not* have
a suitably clear runway, and so will have to go around.

If he has already been "cleared to land" (US) then the controller has
to call a go-around; if he has *not* been "cleared to land" (UK) then
the controller needn't say anything, as he'll reach his missed approach
point without his landing clearance, and execute a missed approach.