The Southwest Airlines and FedEx jets involved in Saturday’s near miss in Austin came within 100 feet of one another, the National Transportation Safety Board...
The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that
an air traffic controller had cleared the incoming FedEx plane to land on the runway and then shortly after gave the Southwest Airlines 737-700 permission to take offThe FedEx Boeing 767 jet aborted the landing and avoided Southwest Airlines flight 708, the FAA said. It circled and landed safely shortly after while the Southwest flight continued on to Cancun and arrived safely as well.
The FedEx jet was about two-thirds of a mile from the airport when the air traffic controller gave the go-ahead for the Southwest plane to use the runway, FlightRadar24 said. We have processed and analyzed the granular ADS-B data related to yesterday’s incident involving a FedEx 767 and Southwest Airlines 737 in Austin. Initial analysis and data available for download at
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