Close call in the sky
The Sports Junkies
Audacy
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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7/11 Hour 1:
American Airlines and Delta flights almost crash mid-air
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't mean to cause panic or alarm during my very professional |
| 0:09.3 | you said collision not near collision yeah I should have said that there was a near collision instead of a |
| 0:16.4 | collision between two airplanes because if there was a collision that'd be a big |
| 0:19.9 | we would have been talking about that instead of Jason overpaying for sushi in the first |
| 0:24.7 | thing of the show. Yeah, I mean it would have been the first thing we would have been a big deal. |
| 0:28.6 | He didn't say he overpaid, he just said he paid a lot. Maybe it was worth it. I'm just kidding. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm trying to weave |
| 0:33.8 | in a joke sushi is expensive just this I completely that plus inflation is |
| 0:39.3 | is going to be expensive yeah meal but apparently there was a close call in the skies above Syracuse. |
| 0:45.0 | I could say Syracuse, New York, Jason, but everybody knows Syracuse, |
| 0:50.0 | is in New York when two airplanes nearly collided in midair Monday afternoon. |
| 0:56.5 | The two planes were carrying a combined total of 159 people. |
| 1:01.9 | The incident is under investigation by the FAA, but the near-miss appears to have |
| 1:06.3 | been caused by an air traffic control error. Communications between air traffic control and the pilots of the plane show that the American |
| 1:15.3 | Airlines flight was cleared to land on runway 28 at the same time that the Delta flight that was involved was cleared to take off from the same runway. |
| 1:26.8 | So the error appears have been caught first by the American Airlines pilot who asked, |
| 1:32.2 | quote, wait, who's cleared to take off on Q8? The American pilots sounded the alarm. |
| 1:46.0 | We see 3511, 30 stars go around. |
| 1:49.0 | Go around, Blue Street, 5511. |
| 1:51.0 | As that American flight climbed to about 1825 feet, |
| 1:55.0 | preliminary flight data shows it was on the same course |
| 1:58.0 | as Delta 5421 as it was taking off for New York's |
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