Delta flight was touring 60 mph down runway when AeroMéxico aircraft landed in entrance of it | EUROtoday

A Delta flight was touring 60 mph down a runway in Mexico City on Monday when an AeroMéxico aircraft landed in entrance of it.

The Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 jet certain for Atlanta needed to cease its takeoff and return to its terminal at Benito Juarez International Airport after an AeroMéxico Embraer 190 regional jet flew over the aircraft and landed in entrance of it on the identical runway, in line with a number of studies.

FlightRadar24, a flight monitoring website, confirmed the 2 plane about 200 toes aside, in line with the studies.

The Delta flight, which had 144 passengers and 6 crew members on board, departed to Atlanta about three hours late, CNN reported.

Delta and AeroMéxico each mentioned in separate statements obtained by ABC News the businesses have been cooperating with authorities because the incident is investigated. Both airways mentioned sustaining passenger security was their primary precedence.

ABC reported on air site visitors management recordings from the incident, through which the Delta pilot was reportedly heard saying, “We are holding on the runway.” Another voice can be heard in the recordings saying, “Wow” and “Increíble.”

The Independent has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration and Mexico’s civil aviation company for remark.

Steve Ganyard, an ABC News aviation contributor and former fighter pilot, defined what may have gone incorrect within the close to collision.

“There are parallel runways at Mexico City. So we don’t know if the controller told the Aeromexico aircraft to land on the left-hand and not the right-hand runway where the Delta jet was,” he mentioned.

The aviation skilled continued: “We also don’t know, perhaps the tower controller didn’t understand that they had cleared the Aeromexico aircraft to land while simultaneously clearing the Delta jet to take off.”