JetBlue and Southwest planes nearly collide on Washington, D.C., airport runway
A JetBlue flight nearly collided with a Southwest Airlines plane at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday, the latest close call to unfold at a U.S. airport.
A JetBlue flight nearly collided with a Southwest Airlines plane at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday, the latest close call to unfold at a U.S. airport.
Southwest Airlines Flight 2937 had been instructed by air traffic control to cross runway No. 4 at the airport while JetBlue Flight 1554 was starting its takeoff roll on the same runway around 7:41 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the matter.
“JetBlue 1554, stop! “Southwest, stop! Southwest 2937, stop,” someone could be heard yelling on radio traffic archived by the website LiveATC.
A source familiar with the matter told NBC News the planes came within 1,000 feet of each other.
JetBlue said its flight, bound for Boston, “aborted” takeoff “due to another aircraft attempting to cross the runway.”
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