Southwest Airplane
Stunning Close to-Miss on Runway!!!
Caught on Digital camera
Printed
The aviation expertise simply bought a bit of scarier, if that was even doable — a significant tragedy was narrowly averted this morning on a runway in Chicago.
Maintain on to your seats — terrifying footage reveals a Southwest Airways jet aircraft aborting its touchdown at Halfway Airport Tuesday morning, when a Challenger 350 non-public jet on the runway taxied into its path seconds earlier than what would’ve been a devastating collision.
As you may see, the Southwest Airways aircraft almost touched down on the runway earlier than its quick-thinking pilot pulled off a heroic transfer, yanking the aircraft again up into the air for an emergency go-around — only a few hundred yards away from the non-public jet.
The pilot’s actions straight-up saved lives, and the aircraft, arriving from Nebraska, later landed protected and sound … with Southwest confirming the crew adopted security protocols, and every thing ended with out a hitch.
The small print are nonetheless murky concerning the Tennessee-bound non-public jet — whether or not they noticed the aircraft coming in, and the variety of folks onboard. The FAA is launching an investigation into the incident.
Little question, it’s rattled loads of people, particularly with the latest string of aviation nightmares — a aircraft flipping the wrong way up, a cabin stuffed with smoke mid-flight, and a helicopter colliding with a aircraft over Washington, D.C., killing everybody onboard.
