Collision avoided between two planes at Texas airport

An air traffic controller on Saturday may have double-booked a runway at a Texas airport. Direction of two liners on a course for a potential collision that was averted, officials said.

The close conversation took place around 6:40 a.m. at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, from where a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was cleared to depart shortly before a FedEx 767 cargo plane was expected to make an approved landing, the Federal Aviation Administration said. statement.

The FAA reported that the FedEx plane refused to land on runway 18-left.

“The pilot of the FedEx aircraft aborted the landing and began climbing,” the report said. Flight Southwest departed safely.

The shipper said in a statement that a FedEx Express flight from Memphis to Austin “landed safely after encountering an event just prior to landing.”

Southwest declined to comment. The air traffic controllers’ union did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On January 16 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, a Delta Air Lines plane preparing for takeoff was frantically ordered to stop when controllers spotted an American Airlines plane crossing its path, the FAA said at the time.

The Delta 737 was able to stop in time after the controller heard over a radio conversation archived by the LiveATC website, “Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance!”

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