Southwest Aircraft
Stunning Close to-Miss on Runway!!!
Caught on Digicam
Revealed
The aviation expertise simply acquired slightly scarier, if that was even attainable — 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 airplane 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’ll be able to see, the Southwest Airways airplane almost touched down on the runway earlier than its quick-thinking pilot pulled off a heroic transfer, yanking the airplane again up into the air for an emergency go-around — just some hundred yards away from the non-public jet.
The pilot’s actions straight-up saved lives, and the airplane, arriving from Nebraska, later landed secure and sound … with Southwest confirming the crew adopted security protocols, and all the things ended with no hitch.
The small print are nonetheless murky concerning the Tennessee-bound non-public jet — whether or not they noticed the airplane coming in, and the variety of folks onboard. The FAA is launching an investigation into the incident.
Little doubt, it’s rattled lots of people, particularly with the current string of aviation nightmares — a airplane flipping the other way up, a cabin full of smoke mid-flight, and a helicopter colliding with a airplane over Washington, D.C., killing everybody onboard.
