lakers legend gerard s record. we will talk about it. is it stressful at all? the chase? no, because it was never goal, it was never journey. the stress so far for me is competing every single day. also, nerve-racking moments in the sky. first was in your message of k when two planes packed the passengers nearly collided on the runway last month. that was a delta flight. it had to abort its takeoff as an american airlines flight cross the runway right in front of it. [bleep] cancel takeoff plans. 1943, cancel takeoff plans. rejecting. there was another near miss this weekend, a fedex plane and a southwest airline 7:37 came within 100 feet of each other. experts say it was the pilot of
r runway. the national transportation safety board tells cnn the fedex crew aborted unprompted and started to climb averting disaster. fedex is on the go. they saved in my view 128 people from a potential catastrophe. reporter: the two planes came within 100 feet of colliding in thick fog. it comes three weeks after another near collision at jfk where adel delta flight abruptl stopped the takeoff as an american airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of it. 1943 cancel takeoff plans. reporter: the ntsb says in both incidents, cockpit voice recorders timed out after two hours and not 25 like the agency recommended leaving investigators without key clues. the ability to have accident
t t p dangerously close to each other. forcing the fedex plane to abort its landing and pull up. nance adding the southwest pilot s decision not to turn may have averted a disaster. the tower told him to turn to the right. that would have been a very dangerous thing to do and the southwest pilot refused it. last month, a delta and american plane with a combined 302 passengers and crew narrowly avoid crashing into each other at jfk. delta cancel takeoff plans. just 1,000 feet separating them. the delta flight quickly aborting takeoff. we re back to about where we were before covid. the reason we re seeing so many of these is the increasing pace o operations is overwhelming the system to a certain extent. what can be done to avoid these kinds of incidents? aviation experts believe the quickest fix to this problem is to increase the margin of distance between departing and landing aircraft on the same runway. whit. zohreen shah reporting. thank you.
they ll interview the tower personnel. they review the tapes. and they ll find out where the mistakes were made. the national transportation safety board says it is investigating this as a possible runway incursion. it is the same type of incident that happened on the runway last month at jfk. in that case, the pilots of a delta flight were told to abort their takeoff as an american airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of him. [ beep ] cancel takeoff plans! cancel takeoff plans! rejecting. this underscores one, that the most dangerous part, the most perilous part of the trip is often when the plane is taxiing on the runways. these runways are crowded. there is one big difference here between these two incidents. that jfk incident, the weather was clear n this austin incident, this latest incident, there was thick fog visibility at the time reported at an
pilot cut the landing short, pulling the plane into a climb for safety how differently could this have played out without the caution of that fedex crew had the fedex crew not initiated a go around, these airplanes would have been potentially very close or even possibly collided reporter: at new york s jfk airport a similar close call just weeks ago delta 1946, cancel takeoff plans. reporter: an american airlines flight forced a delta jet to abort take-off after somehow crossing the same runway, american promising a full internal investigation. at newark on friday a boeing 787 clipped wings with a united flight as it left the gate no one was hurt but the faa says the impact snapped off a small piece of the wing. reporter: morgan joins us from the austin airport what is next in the investigation there? kate, we know both the ntsb and faa are investigating and of course they re very interested in the flight data recorders but also the critical radio traffic showing