Two airplanes landing at the same time with close proximity

Comparing the engine sizes or counting the windows really shows that the back plane is probably double the size of the front plane.

Cool illusion.

Wait a minute, are you telling me that the hobbit actors weren't really that small?

I mean, it's rare enough that 2 planes land at the same time. They are definitely "close" but probably some 200m apart.

SOP (like 99% sure). Many airports have parallel runways with more than enough clearance for two simultaneous landings. I have been a passenger in this scenario at least four times that I can think of, and I don't fly that much. I think those were in Denver, SFO and LAX. I don't recall there being any situation that would be considered an emergency on any of those.

The runways are likely pretty far apart. Telephotos lenses compress depth and make objects appear closer to each other. It's why telephoto lenses are used for portraits to make facial features look more attractive and with slightly less depth.

Looks like San Francisco. There are two main runways there, this is common. I think it's just time and chance to land at the same exact moment like this.

So the Alaska is a e175 which is about 70 people vs the United which is about 170 people. It looks close because of the angle and some camera tricks. Landing on parallel runways happens all the time.

They are called Precission radar monitoring approaches and they start doing them when things get super congested. Requires us to listen to another radio so atc can tell us to break-out if someone crosses the no go zone in between the runways.

I've done this (sitting in a passenger seat), it's normal. This video is a bit of an optical illusion, the planes are nowhere near as close as they look.

There are certain airports where it's standard procedure.

Likely just an issue with the perspective of the video, I bet these planes have plenty distance between them if you were to see them from the front

It looks dangerously close due to the camera lens.

In reality it wasn't.

Captain Joe has a good video on PRM and SOIA approaches.

Not necessarily standard, but not likely an emergency. Loads of places have the setup required for parallel landings / takeoffs, it's just usually more efficient to have them alternating

Here's a list of the places that have parallel runways (bottom of the page)

My thoughts too. I figured that the FAA would prevent this from happening for any reason except emergencies

Edit: c'mon folks, I'm not asserting that this is an emergency or that this is against regulations. I thought it was, but if this is a normal landing then it's simply a surprise to me that it happens.

That has to be an emergency. I can't see how any pilot would risk it unless they had to.

It's a perspective trick - they're not close as you think they are, and the United plane carries more than double the passengers of the closer Alaska.

Most planes only crash once