Near Miss in Barcelona
 

IF you are already afraid of flying you may want to skip this

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...707-3bi9f.html

That was quite scary. I'm glad I wasn't in any of those planes. I'm not afraid of flying, but it definitely gives you the chills when you see that these sort of things could happen.

Yep, a runway incursion is one of my "helpless" fears.

The big one that I always remember happened just as I started flying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

That video uses a very long focal length lens to "compress"' the objects. It's an incident and someone made a mistake, but it is far from calling it a "near miss".

I think rkkwan is on the right track.
The trick is that long focal lenses make objects appear closer to each other than they are.
When the Russian pilot aborted the approach, his plane was 1.7nm / 2mls / 3.2kms or 40 seconds away from the other one (source given in link to article at bottom).

More recent press coverage quotes a spokesperson from the airport authority that both planes had been "where they were supposed to be", and would have been able to complete their respective manoeuvers (taxiing across the runway, landing on same runway) safely and in compliance with safety distances.
http://www.elperiodico.com/es/notici...celona-3358715

Whether this is the truth and nothing but the truth is probably too early to say. But another report suggests that other factors could have played a role:

The Russian aircraft was supposed to land on typically unused runway 02.
The taxiing Aerolineas Argentina pilot might have been familiar with this practice, and by habit run over the "hold short" stop sign that blocks all access points to runways.
Or ATC/tower could have given a wrong clearance to proceed across Rwy 02..

http://avherald.com/h?article=476e99b0