
Airport News: First 38 people died in a plane crash in Kazakhstan, then 179 passengers and crew died in the crash of Jeju Airlines flight 7C-2216 at Muan International Airport in South Korea. Meanwhile, the news coming from Los Angeles Airport in America has sent chills down everyone's spine once again. This news was related to the incident of two aircrafts ready to take off coming face to face.
Actually, it must have been around 4:30 in the afternoon at Los Angeles Airport. After getting permission to take off from the Air Traffic Control, Delta Airlines flight DL-471 destined for Atlanta had started rolling on. The Delta Airlines aircraft had reached its full speed when the ATC noticed Lime Air's chartered flight 563 coming from the front. This flight was also moving fast towards the runway.
Both the planes were moving towards the runway together.
ATC saw that the Lime Air aircraft was moving rapidly in the same direction from which the Delta Airlines aircraft was to take off. Seeing this, everyone present in the air traffic control panicked. It seemed that both the aircrafts were going to collide with each other in a few moments. Then a controller present in the ATC control shouted loudly… Stop… Stop… Stop…
A major accident was averted in a few seconds.
It was a matter of luck that the pilot of Lime Air heard the instruction of ATC in time and applied the brakes of his aircraft. In a few seconds, the plane of Delta Airlines took off in the air and after this everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Let us tell you here that this aircraft of Lime Air was booked by Gonzaga University and the entire basketball team of the university was present in it.
The university's basketball team was present in the plane
. Regarding this incident, the airport administration says that Lime Air's Embraer E135 aircraft was moving towards the runway carrying the basketball team of Gonzaga University. Seeing the aircraft going out of the range of the hold bars, the air traffic controllers instructed the pilots to stop. At the same time, Delta Airlines' Atlanta-bound flight took off for its destination without any delay.