A cargo plane could have collided with an aircraft carrying commercial passengers at an Austin airport after air traffic controllers gave both planes clearance to use the same runway Saturday morning.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident, which the NTSB described as a “possible runway incursion.”
FedEx Flight 1432 was cleared to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport’s Runway 18-Left at 6:40 a.m. Central time, the FAA said in a statement based on preliminary information.Shortly before the FedEx plane was due to land, an air traffic controller cleared Southwest Flight 708 to depart from the same runway, the FAA statement said.The pilot of the FedEx airplane discontinued the landing and pulled up, the FAA said, and the Southwest plane took off safely, bound for Cancún.
The NTSB was sending two investigators to Austin, NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss told The Washington Post on Sunday. A preliminary NTSB report could be available in 15 days.released by Flightradar24, the Boeing 767 cargo plane operated by FedEx approaches the same runway that the Southwest plane was using.
The NTSB is investigating an incident involving a Southwest 737 and FedEx 767 that occurred today in Austin. Initial ADS-B data show the landing 767 overflying the departing 737. We are processing granular data now.
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