hot. and, now officials say the egyptair flight 986 was instructed to stay behind what they. 250 feet behind the runway and it didn t cross the line but didn t enter the runway and pilots aboard other planes who witnessed the whole thing radioed in, after watching the close call, listen to that: coming together, that was quite a show, i thought it was going to be a short career. reporter: the munich bound plane pulled they ve runway and had a port authority crew to check the brakes and after a stop headed back to the runway, and departed landing safely in munich, and the egypt air boeing 777 jet, also took off 90 minutes after the incident and headed to cairo. and, no exact word as to how close these planes came colliding but the lufthansa plane stopped a considerable distance from the egypt air jet and they are listening to communications and looking at radar to determine how the