The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how two jetliners were put on an apparent collision course as they were leaving Reagan National Airport Thursday morning, prompting air traffic controllers to frantically radio each plane to stop.
In another scary plane incident during a year that has been full of them, a JetBlue Airways plane and a Southwest Airlines plane nearly ran into one another on the ground Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport,
A near collision between two aircraft was avoided earlier Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport. JetBlue and Southwest Airlines airplanes avoided each other by only 400 feet. Air traffic control recordings show controllers yelling at the JetBlue flight to stop its takeoff as the Southwest flight began taxiing on the runway.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will investigate after a flight at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was instructed to cross a runway where another flight was starting its takeoff.
A Boston-bound JetBlue flight nearly collided with a Southwest Airlines flight on the runway at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. Thursday morning, officials said. JetBlue Flight 1554 was beginning its takeoff roll on a runway at the airport when an air traffic controller instructed a Southwest Airlines flight heading to Orlando,
Two airplanes experienced a near miss after almost colliding on the runway before tower control intervened and frantically yelled at both planes to “stop”! Recordings from air traffic control revealed the moment when the controllers realised that a JetBlue Airways flight and a Southwestern plane were on course to possibly crash into each other at Reagan National Airport in Virginia on Thursday morning.
Washington National Airport in Virginia Air traffic controllers in Virginia stopped two jets colliding after they were cleared to takeoff from the same runway. The Federal Aviation Administration said it's now looking into the incident,