Stunning video from Chicago's Midway airport shows a passenger plane aborting its landing at the last minute to avoid colliding with a private jet.
CNN aviation expert Pete Muntean recounted the incident:
"This morning at about 10:50 Central Standard Time, this Southwest flight...was coming in to land on Midway's 3-1 Center. Very busy airport, huge hub for Southwest Airlines. This is what's called a 'go around' or an 'aborted landing.' You may have experienced this on a commercial flight. Usually, pilots do this when the approach is unstable, or there's wind or there's wind shear. In this case, this is called a 'runway incursion,' meaning an airplane on the runway where there shouldn't be. That's the private jet, the Challenger 350, there taxiing out in front of this flight."
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Muntean continued, "The crew of the Southwest flight does a 'go around,' pitches up and climbs back into the air to come back around for a successful landing. Obviously, nobody hurt.
"But this is a narrative, just one more example in a narrative of incidents, that we have seen since the start of 2023, and the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board has investigated a significant number of these incidents that came within very close, we're talking feet away from a possible collision."
Watch the clip below or at this link via CNN.
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