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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched an investigation into a near collision at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) where a Delta Air Lines flight DL471 took off just as a private jet (Key Lime Air flight 563) carrying the Gonzaga men’s basketball team was landing.
NEW: The FAA has launched an investigation after the men's Gonzaga basketball team nearly got eliminated by a Delta plane taking off.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" the air traffic controller could be heard saying.
The chartered Embraer E135 jet, carrying the team, had just landed at… pic.twitter.com/6UAUOG5wiP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 30, 2024
Air traffic control urgently shouted “Stop! Stop! Stop!” in an attempt to avert a collision and fortunately there was a narrow miss. It’s unknown why these two aircraft were so close together and the FAA released the following statement to NBC 4 Los Angeles:
Air traffic controllers directed Key Lime Air Flight 563 to hold short of crossing a runway at Los Angeles International Airport because a second aircraft was taking off from the runway at the time. When the Embraer E135 jet proceeded to cross the hold bars, air traffic controllers told the pilots to stop. The jet never crossed the runway edge line.”
Anthony’s Take: We’ll need to wait for details from the FAA investigation, but thankfully tragedy was narrowly averted at LAX on Friday. No injuries were reported.
(Featured Image Credit: @CollinRugg via X.)
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I almost never go on Twitter but I wanted to see the whole post. Didn’t take me long to regret it; the top reply is blaming DEI for this near-miss.
So much hate.
“Stop, Stop, Stop!” Who, everybody on the frequency? What if they all did, and that caused one or more unsafe conditions elsewhere? While it is early, it appears Key Lime made a mistake. The controller appears to have panicked,, and the controller’s non-standard utterance was grossly inexact, possibly danger-inducing, and worth little in actually controlling the imminent dangerous situation at hand.