Harrowing footage has captured the moment a Delta Airlines flight nearly collided with a Gonzaga University basketball team's plane on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
“Stop, stop, stop!” an air traffic controller could be heard yelling as the plane carrying the men's team prepared to clear the runway at Los Angeles International Airport around 4:30 p.m. Friday. According to footage of the incident posted online.
As Delta Flight 471 raced up the runway at full speed and took off, the spinning jet, Key Lime Air Flight 563, came to an abrupt halt.
“Wow! Wow! Wow,” an airplane observer who was filming the runway and uploading the video to YouTube aviation videos was heard shouting immediately after the near miss.
“In all the years I've been doing this job, I've never once heard an air traffic controller tell a plane to 'stop, stop, stop,'” he says, as private jets continue to move even after the runway is cleared. , the plane observer added.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into the incident.
“Air traffic controllers directed Key Lime Flight 563 not to cross the runway at Los Angeles International Airport because a second aircraft was taking off from the runway at the time,” an FAA spokesperson said. said. told NBC 4 Los Angeles..
“As the Embraer E135 attempted to cross the hold bar, air traffic controllers instructed the pilot to stop. The jet never crossed the runway threshold,” they added.
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