Southwest Plane
Shocking Near-Miss on Runway!!!
Caught on Camera
Published
The aviation expertise simply bought slightly scarier, if that was even potential — a significant tragedy was narrowly averted this morning on a runway in Chicago.
Hold on to your seats — terrifying footage exhibits a Southwest Airlines jet airplane aborting its touchdown at Midway Airport Tuesday morning, when a Challenger 350 personal 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 Airlines airplane practically 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 — only a few hundred yards away from the personal jet.
The pilot’s actions straight-up saved lives, and the airplane, arriving from Nebraska, later landed protected and sound … with Southwest confirming the crew adopted security protocols, and all the pieces ended with out a hitch.
The particulars are nonetheless murky in regards to the Tennessee-bound personal 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.
No doubt, it’s rattled plenty of of us, particularly with the latest string of aviation nightmares — a airplane flipping the wrong way up, a cabin stuffed with smoke mid-flight, and a helicopter colliding with a airplane over Washington, D.C., killing everybody onboard.