An air carrier aircraft continued a landing at dfw after the tower directed a go-around for taxiing ...

Narrative:

We were in a visual approach to dfw. I was the pilot flying. I called out to the first officer that there was an aircraft crossing the runway down field. It appeared that the aircraft would easily cross the runway in time for us to make a normal landing. The automated call outs started with 50; 40; 30; 20 and 10. Just as I touched down I heard the tower call go-around; and then the first officer called go-around. It was too late. I was already on the runway with power at idle. We could clearly see that the crossing aircraft had cleared the runway and that there were not any other conflicts. We had 13;000 ft of runway and the aircraft was crossing at the far end. Doing a touch and go would not have been the safest course of action. We were at flaps 40 and in thrust reverse.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An air carrier aircraft continued a landing at DFW after the Tower directed a go-around for taxiing traffic crossing down field. The aircraft was on the ground at idle power when the Tower issued go-around instructions.

Narrative: We were in a visual approach to DFW. I was the pilot flying. I called out to the First Officer that there was an aircraft crossing the runway down field. It appeared that the aircraft would easily cross the runway in time for us to make a normal landing. The automated call outs started with 50; 40; 30; 20 and 10. Just as I touched down I heard the Tower call go-around; and then the First Officer called go-around. It was too late. I was already on the runway with power at idle. We could clearly see that the crossing aircraft had cleared the runway and that there were not any other conflicts. We had 13;000 FT of runway and the aircraft was crossing at the far end. Doing a touch and go would not have been the safest course of action. We were at Flaps 40 and in thrust reverse.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	845078
Time
Date	200907
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	DFW.Airport
State Reference	TX
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Ground Conflict Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Clearance

An air carrier aircraft continued a landing at dfw after the tower directed a go-around for taxiing traffic crossing down field. The aircraft was on the ground at idle power when the tower issued go-around instructions.