A FedEx Corp. flight landing at the Austin, Texas, airport last weekend appeared to come within 100 feet of a Southwest Airlines flight taking off, according...
A FedEx Corp. FDX flight landing at the Austin, Texas, airport last weekend appeared to come within 100 feet of a Southwest Airlines LUV flight taking off, according to the head of the safety agency leading the investigation into the incident, the second such close call in three weeks.
The... A FedEx Corp. FDX flight landing at the Austin, Texas, airport last weekend appeared to come within 100 feet of a Southwest Airlines LUV flight taking off, according to the head of the safety agency leading the investigation into the incident, the second such close call in three weeks. The event played out over about two minutes. The FedEx flight started to climb and called for the Southwest flight to abort its takeoff, Homendy said. “That was pretty heroic of the FedEx pilot,” she said.
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