Heart-stopping moment Delta airliner almost collided with private jet on LAX runway
An investigation is underway after a Delta plane nearly collided with a private jet at Los Angeles airport.
The heartbreaking moment was captured on a live stream on the runway, and controllers can be heard shouting: “Stop, stop, stop” before the near miss at around 4.30pm on Friday.
According to the LA timesThe chartered Embraer E135 aircraft was carrying the Gonzaga University men’s basketball team and had just landed from Spokane, Washington.
The plane was about to cross the runway when air traffic controllers saw the Delta plane speeding down the path and frantically ordered the Embraer to stop.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators have launched an investigation into the incident, which was captured by plane spotter Kevin Ray’s YouTube video. channel.
Along with the air controller, you can hear Ray scream in shock. ‘Wow! In all the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never heard an air traffic controller tell an airplane, “Stop, stop, stop,” he says in the video.
An FAA spokesperson told DailyMail.com that the plane “never overran the edge of the runway.” “The FAA will investigate,” they said.
The Gonzaga University men’s basketball team was on the plane at the time and they faced UCLA the next day.
An investigation is underway after a Delta plane nearly collided with a private jet at Los Angeles airport. The heartbreaking moment was captured on a livestream on the catwalk
According to the LA Times, the chartered Embraer E135 plane was carrying the Gonzaga University men’s basketball team and had just landed from Spokane, Washington.
The school “expects to receive more information regarding this event and is grateful that the incident ended safely for everyone,” a spokesperson told the LA Times in a statement.
Gonzaga University is a private Jesuit school in Spokane, Washington.
Delta Flight 471 was en route to Atlanta and did not appear to be affected by the near miss. Delta said it was “functioning normally.”
The Key Lime Air flight took off from Spokane International Airport at 2:10 p.m. Friday and landed at LAX nine minutes early, at 4:20 p.m., according to Flight conscious facts.
Meanwhile, the Delta flight departed 16 minutes late, at 4:31 p.m., according to the tracking website shows.
It comes amid the busy holiday season, with TSA experts saying they expect to screen about 40 million passengers at airport security checkpoints over the holiday season.
The incident also follows two horrific plane crashes in South Korea and Azerbaijan.
A Jeju Air plane skidded off the runway at Muan airport, 300 kilometers south of Seoul, before crashing into a concrete barrier and catching fire on Sunday after its landing gear apparently failed to deploy.
Nearly all 181 people aboard the Boeing 737-800 were killed, with only two cabin crew members – a man and a woman – pulled from the wreckage alive.
Meanwhile, 38 people died when flight J2-8432 was shot down in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day.
“Based on the opinion of experts and the words of eyewitnesses, it can be concluded that there was outside interference,” Azerbaijani Transport Minister Rashad Nabiyev told reporters on Friday.
“It is necessary to find out what kind of weapon it is,” he added, citing reports from survivors of hearing “three explosions” as the plane flew over Grozny.