Newark Airport near-disaster as two planes virtually collide on runway | EUROtoday

A industrial airliner and a cargo aircraft got here perilously near colliding on intersecting runways at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The incident, which occurred on Tuesday night time, is now below evaluate by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The shut name concerned an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737, which flew over a FedEx Boeing 777 on the busy New York City space airport.

According to the FAA, an air site visitors controller instructed Alaska Airlines Flight 294, arriving from Portland, Oregon, to carry out a “go around” – which means to discontinue its touchdown method and circle for a brand new try.

This instruction was issued as a result of FedEx Flight 721, originating from Memphis, Tennessee, had already been cleared for a closing method to an intersecting runway.

Alaska Airlines stated that flight was cleared to land at Newark.

Air site visitors management “issued a go around to our aircraft, which our pilots are highly trained for,” the airline stated in an announcement.

FedEx additionally launched an announcement, saying that its flight crew “followed instructions from air traffic control and landed safely.”