A Southwest Airlines and FedEx cargo airplane avoided crashing into each other at the Austin airport over the weekend by less than 100 feet, the head of a federal investigating body said Monday.
On Saturday, air traffic control cleared a FedEx cargo airplane to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the same runway where a Southwest Airlines flight with 128 people on board was about to take off. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
On Saturday, air traffic control cleared a FedEx cargo airplane to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the same runway where a Southwest Airlines flight with 128 people on board was about to take off. The FedEx plane aborted its landing. Both the Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB, an independent agency that investigates transportation accidents, are probing the event, which happened over the span of roughly two minutes.
In that case, both aircraft were within about 1,400 feet of each other, Homendy said, but JFK’s air traffic controllers were able to take action based on a technology the airport has equipped that tracks ground-level movement of aircraft and vehicles on the grounds of an airport. Homendy said roughly 35 airports around the country have the technology equipped; Austin does not.
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