Investigation launched after Delta and American Airlines planes nearly collided on runway

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-miss between two commercial passenger planes at JFK airport. A Delta 737 and an American 777 came within 1,000 feet of colliding on the runway. Kris Van Cleave reports.

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[reecom]

The American Airlines (AA106) missed the taxiway to runway 4L to be next to takeoff after Delta Airlines (DL1943) and was headed to runway 31L, the wrong runway. The American Airlines pilot and copilot should have known what the active takeoff runway was. With moving map navigation and even with an ordinary compass both pilots would have seen they were heading in the wrong direction. Airline pilots are required to have a pre-takeoff briefing and both have to agree on which runway is in active use from the broadcast digital Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) and monitor the given taxi instructions on their moving map navigation. There is no single person's mistake, it had to be multiple failures in procedures to have been broken by both pilots for the potential of a major accident. It is the reason for two airline pilots to verify each other's action in the cockpit.

[Colette-xh]

Thanks be to God that no one was hurt!

[Empatheticbella]

OMG thank God nothing happened to anyone that would of been so horrible please be careful out there & take care of each other please blessings 🙏🏼❤️

[dboogeman]

Distraction in cockpit, or incompetence in the tower. I'm sure they already figured it out. Just awaiting the update.

[safrafath]

I'm so happy about timely cancellation of the takeoff, it would have been disastrous otherwise 😣😓 and the delta pilot's sigh in relief

[AT-zldk]

I have flown many times and every time the plane land or take off in the air a sigh of relief comes over me. I always say a prayer to cover everyone involved in the air traffic but I have never ever thought of this scenario

Praise report
Thank you Lord and those trained professionals who protected the passengers.

God is moving people

Near death experiences are here to show us something

My opinion and belief

[MichePiece]

so close to 3 plane crashes in a day, today a plane crashed in nepal and almost this, theres only one time in i know when more than 3 planes have crashed in one day

[reecom]

The NTSB also needs to investigate the actions of the ground controller that was suppose to monitor the movements of all planes and vehicles on the ground up to the runway using ground radar. The tower at JFK, the lower glass observation room is for the ground controller to visually see the areas from the gate and the taxiways up to the runways. The departure controller luckily looked out from the his glass observation room higher up to see the runway incursion of the American Airlines (AA106).

[maxlinder]

This would have been a Great FOTO just my opinion..

[charlenemariecoraninmemory]

guy yelling cancel takeoff plans deserves a 2 million dollar reward i think

[Jay-hrrh]

The two must dangerous parts of flying are the passengers and the taxing of the aircraft on the ground.

[christyg]

Yikes! Another Tenerife disaster was about to happen.

[realamerican]

Got STOP BAR? Anyone, anyone, STOP BAR, anyone?

[S]

Omg this was exactly as the Tenerife crash but thankfully a catastrophic didn't happen like the one in Tenerife that killed more than 500 people in the runway

[joeharper]

No one’s going to mention that he “slammed on the breaks” 😂 idk what you think his breaks doing at that point but they ain’t doing much

[farhanabdulhamid]

TNX GOOD business ok thanks Family First good USA god TNX

[nonakotler]

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In order to save our planet, we should think about positive human connections. That is, how can we, in our connections, keep nature safe? How can we all together protect our world? If we truly wish to better our planet, then we should see people holding a concern for how to positively connect everywhere that we look.
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We need to understand that if we start thinking better about each other, then the planet will recover from all harm, because our thoughts are the strongest force in nature. Likewise, our negative thoughts about each other are entirely to blame for damaging the planet. That is why the more we recycle and invest in energies and activities that we commonly think of as being sustainable, the worse our planet becomes. Nothing will work to benefit us until we reach a state where our attitude changes toward each other for the better to protect and improve our planet.