A Delta jet pilot braked to avoid colliding with an American Airlines plane. No one was hurt in the incident, but the Delta flight returned to the gate where 145 passengers and six crew members deplaned. Delta issued an apology to customers, provided overnight accommodations, and is now investigating the incident, along with the FAA and NTSB.
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Terrifying near-miss between passenger planes at JFK Airport
#Delta #Airlines #Travel
Thank God for the averted tragedy. That was close.
Peep the day it happen ” friday the 13th ” 🤯🤯🤯
Delta doesn’t have 747 in its fleet !
Why are super rich only hiring pilots who have not been Vaccinated.?
Well handled!!!
Thank you sharing.
It happened on Friday the 13th
Oops
I was in 106 and just now find out about this 💀💀
Do tell. Any screaming? What was the cabin like?
@Megan Proffitt as far as I know no passenger noticed it, I think not even crew members, unless pilot told them later
@david pacheco Oof, so somehow no one on the right side of the plane noticed the DL coming at them?
@Megan Proffitt as far as i know, no. last rows weren’t that full so maybe no one noticed
@david pacheco Funny (how no one noticed)! Thanks for answering!
Definitely air traffic controllers fault
except it’s not
Stop interviewing people from their livingrooms
It’s unprofessional
“Cancel takeoff clearance” not “takeoff plans”.
Delta did it right, American did it wrong. Delta gave everyone a night to recover, maybe it’s best not to fly on a Friday the 13th.
Brakes were hot and the crew timed out. Had nothing to do with giving everyone a night to recover
Delta returned to the terminal so passengers and crew could get clean underwear.
It wasn’t deltas fault!!
Thank goodness.
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Uncle Joe almost got the major distraction he needed ! ?
Wow, this is crazy!!!
I know somebody soiled their pants on both planes
Anyone seen John mulaney standup “..because we’re delta airlines…”
My first flight ever and this happened to my fiance and myself also. It was so freaking scary. The pilot had to break so hard I saw everyone’s heads and necks snap forward and then back again. I’m surprised no one was hurt or sued
The most catastrophic aviation disaster involving two B747s in heavy fog happened on the runway involving a KLM and Pan Am in 1977. Impatient pilots combined with perfect storm of events. One on takeoff roll while the other back taxi down same runway. Misunderstood clearance etc. fortunately technology has come a long way in assisting in preventing these events including ASDE. Grateful this turned out as well as it did!
Sounds like AAL pilot possibly has a “deviation “ and did not hold short of active runway but possible controller missed a bad “read back.”
IM SURE THE AMERICAN AIRLINES PILOT WAS A WOMAN🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She wasn’t taxiing the plane
We are becoming a nation of clowns, and pilots are in it too
I’m pretty sure the air traffic controller saw it before the pilots on the ground
What is wrong! The airlines are off the chain! No one should fly!
Why wouldn’t they include ATC radio of the situation unfolding!? 😮💨
Before you assign blame, let the FAA Tapes give you result. In this “Positive Control” scenario, either the American pilot didn’t hold short or the the controller failed to give that instruction.
The exact instruction for AA was to cross 31L at K to line up for 4L. They crossed 4L at J and was lining up for 31L. They got the signs and runways mixed up. Everything was adjacent to each other. Maybe they had the map sideways or upsidedown?
A woman pilot from american airline crossed into the wrong lane nearly killing a boat load of passengers. You already know about women drivers, so would you trust your wife or gf fly a commercial airplane?
Jokes on you, the woman wasn’t in control of the aircraft. Her male colleague was
WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE INTERESTING IF IT REALLY HAPPENED, AND SEE NEW YORKES FACES IN FEAR
crew resting periods are important. This is a common occurrence in high traffic airports.
Southwest Airlines: *whistle whistle*
This was NO near miss……they DID miss! It would be a near crash, not a near miss. Why are people so dumb. Near missed…..they ,”nearly” missed, meaning close but did not. You all just go along with the words not making any sense these days and act like it’s normal for things to be what they’re obviously not.
Friday the 13th is a lucky day
Based on the flight demonstration you think the delta plane would be missing the right wing, not the left one.
Praise God no one got hurt very close
these airline are terrible
Tenerife 1977
Well ths could have been a major tragedy and in the near future you cant predict this from Not Happening again anywhere.
However, if we fast forward to the future state of airlines, I do think ROBOTICS AUTOMATION will be the perfect solution in time.
Using Radar, a Robot can track, map out, communicate as perfectly and faster as any human, and work 24/7, no need for breaks…
Ii think we can all pretty much anticipate ROBOTS will eventually be the solution here.
As for flying airplanes, well most lkely too in the future a ROBOT PILOT too, but this is probably 25-30 years away but it all depends, this
is more broad topic and impacts many.
There is a DIRECT connection to vaccine mandates and air traffic accident increases. The media is ignoring this FACT.
How?
“Cancel takeoff plans” 😂😂😂😂 its clearance people! CLEARANCE
Could have been another Tenerife disaster. Those were 747’s tho! 🙏
That’s how the Tenerife accident happened. Scary
The calm precision in communication between pilots and controllers is admirable. Panic would not have helped. Thank goodness tragedy was avoided.
Thank goodness the ATC realized the potential disaster!
To put it into perspective, the 777 saw the 737 with 3 seconds to spare. Its a nightmare scenario because the 777 is a “heavy”, which means it carries a ton of fuel and a lot of passengers. The worst aircraft disaster to ever happen (Tenerife accident), happened in exactly this manner
If anyone’s interested in a thorough video reviewing the Tenerife disaster, check out Mentour Pilot’s channel. He does a great job detailing the event and it really puts into perspective how poorly this could have gone.
Wouldn’t a “near-miss” mean they hit?
No. Near refers to how close you come to an object without actually hitting it.
This could have been another Tenerife disaster, so good job braking in time to pilot!
I thought that they call themselves 1st world, if so, why do such unusual, strange occurrences occur?
Because humans make mistakes?
I dont see how these aircrafts even come close to hitting eachother. The pilot of the inbound aircraft couldn’t visually identify an airliner moving on the ground?
If they have high tech equipment to prevent these crashes why didn’t the alerts go off earlier than the last second.
Of course it had to be American Airlines. 😤🥸🙄
That would of been spooky if they collided. NY’ers would of been permanently scared to fly on Friday the 13th
“Cancel takeoff plans.”
NBC has zero editorial oversight. What a joke.
Something similar to this happened in tenerife in the 70s except the plane on the run way had already taken off and hit the ground plane with it’s landing gear killing over 500 people
Yeah I’m gonna need a refund😂
NBC got something against Delta it seems, because they only used the Delta Hashtag and only reached Delta for information, but never reached American Airlines. American Airlines crew was at fault here! Not Delta!
Wow , 🥺🥺🥺
So almost Tenerife 2.0 😮😰
Lame didn’t even show the near miss
Amazing AA pilots were totally clueless of where they were
Could have been a horrible crash if not caught at that moment
It’s cancel takeoff clearance, not cancel takeoff plans.
I’d be so mad, that means I’d need another flight
The FAA investigation will include every party involved in the incident, both crews, and all Tower controllers. It may even involve the airline’s operations departments. I’ll guarantee that every single person involved was immediately subjected to drug screening, but that will be negative 99.9999% of the time with professional Airline Pilots. Cut and dry case of “Runway Incursion.” One of the crews missed their turn and ended up crossing an active runway without clearance (permission or instructions to do so). This is why every single pilot and tower controller are required to be aware of not only their own movements on the airport, but the position and movements of others, to the best extent possible. Same thing in the air!
This is also why the universal language of aviation, by LAW, is English, established in 1951 by the International Civil Aviation Organization for everyone’s safety. This is so that ALL air crews can hear, and UNDERSTAND the instructions being given to OTHER airplanes on the ground (and in the air). It is very, very frustrating, and difficult when flying into airspace in places that allow their personal cultural pride to supersede International Aviation LAW! An example is flying into Quebec airspace and various other airspaces in Canada, where they simply thumb their noses at the law and issue air traffic control instructions to local Quebec based aircrews in FRENCH, leaving all non-French speaking aircrews in the vicinity clueless about what instructions were just given to another airliner!
What if that airplane was just told to make a collision course turn right across another airplane’s path, or maybe to cross a runway right in front of another airplane that is taking off? One set of pilots has no idea incorrect instructions were just issued and the fates of all the people on board are now in the hands of angels! Big risk? Probably not. But UNNECESSARY? Y E S ! Illegal? ABSOLUTELY! To place entire airliners full of human souls at risk, even small risk, out of arrogant cultural pride is completely unacceptable. The display of cultural pride is everyone’s right, and is totally natural, and in fact, I’m ALL FOR IT, but not in Air traffic Controlling where that display of pride, places human beings at risk of injury or death, no matter how small that risk is. That’s why the law is in place and should be followed.
One day, I hate to imagine, but there could easily be a midair between an airliner given its instructions in English (what is SUPPOSED to happen) and another in French, or perhaps Spanish. It’s. not supposed to be happening, but it still does. The French or Spanish speaking crew can understand what the other airliner was told to do, but the other airplanes are totally in the dark about what instructions were given to the other airplane.
That’s terrifying thank God nothing bad happened 🙏🏼
Lives Matter !!!
So American didn’t issue an apology? Seems they were at fault.
They playin too much with these airline tickets, passengers and employees
They stopped 1000 feet away?
What’s the issue?
It wasn’t a near miss it was a near hit.
@Durrrrl34 might want to check your definitions. If you nearly missed it that means you almost missed it but didn’t. If you nearly hit it that means you almost hit it but didn’t. Go ahead and check your definitions and get back to me.
@Michael Diffey Yes, you are correct in saying if you nearly hit or almost hit something then you didn’t, but near is not the same thing in this definition. Near refers to the distance from the object you almost hit but didn’t. Near, as opposed to far. So you came near something but didn’t hit it: near miss.
@Durrrrl34 you can’t change the definition of a word to fit another scenario. People have just accepted the bad grammar in this case. It’s not that uncommon. I think George Carlin did a skit on it.
@Durrrrl34 go on YouTube and type in george Carlin near miss. It’s pretty funny.
@Michael Diffey it’s not changing anything, there are different meanings for lots of different words. Just because George Carlin did a joke about it doesn’t mean he’s right!🤣
It’s Friday the 13th what could go wrong?😩😩😩
Diversity hiring is deadly, people.
Near-miss you mean a near-hit unless you were expecting them to collide..
Could have been another Tenerife.
Cant wait to see this breakdown on 74 gear’s channel
This happened on my southwest flight at Atlanta International on Friday I pointed out to my mom how we were so close to the plane we did the exact maneuver shown here we were the crossing flight
767?
Probably texting
So glad nothing serious happened!
The American flight crew screwed up and everyone very nearly paid the price.
A near-miss?? 😂
I’ll take a near-collision any day
I feel like there will be one or two vacancies at the JFK ATC tower now. 🤔
🌌🌌🌌🙏🏼🙏🏾🙏🏿🌌🌌🌌
I’m glad we have Pete Buddijudge as transportation secretary, to get this sorted out with his awesome intellect.
I would not want to fly into that insane airport.
100% the fault of ATC unless the AA pilot ignored hold short order. Those guys really shouldn’t be working more than a couple of hours at a time, and the salaries at JFK should be insanely high to ensure top-talent. Super rare and unacceptable that something like this happens
you are wrong buddy AApilot was going in wrong direction and was crossing the wrong runway
Haha such a typical behavior of “American” always butting in someone’s space. I am so glad that no one was hurt, and no carnage was left behind unlike other places when “Americans” butt in at others problem😢.
What is there to talk about? American was given clearance (very audible instructions) to cross runway 31L at Kilo. The female pilot of the American even repeated these instructions back to ground control. Why did they cross runway 4L instead, I don’t know, but what is known is that American is 100% to blame here.
We’re never safe in any companies hands..
Jfk u guys . In my experiences, USA pilots and especially air traffic controllers have a terrible level of ATC language skill. They say just English not ATC and it causes many unclear situations. And controllers doesn’t monitor whole situation of airport well. They just blame pilots.
I don’t know and I can’t understand why they don’t put any efforts on that to improve these kind of problem.
FAA is also problem.
Do not blame and look down on other country pilot who speaks English not better than u guys.
Always big problem come from USA controller or pilot.
This could have been CATASTROPHIC! Glad the delta pilot stopped in time.
1:24 what aircraft has 3 seats on the left and 2 seats on the right side? Last I saw, the B717 has the 3 seats on the right side. Is this a mirror image?
Crazy that so many of those pilots do that drunk lol