Hey everyone, just a quick warning here, you're going to hear an air traffic controller

swear.

Okay, here's the show.

On the evening of January 13th, JFK airport in New York was operating normally.

The tower controllers gave various flights to their instructions.

Here's what the winds like, go to this runway, get ready for takeoff.

And a Delta flight, flight 1943, bound for the Dominican Republic, was getting ready

to take off on runway 4 left.

But then, something very out of the ordinary happened, causing the controller to swear.

He's telling the Delta plane to abort takeoff because another plane, an American Airlines

jet headed for London, had mistakenly crossed the wrong runway, putting it right in front

of the Delta plane.

On another frequency, a JFK, controllers told the American flight, flight 106, to stay

put.

No one on either plane was hurt, but the two jets, with a combined 282 passengers on board,

came roughly 1000 feet from each other.

In airplane terms, it's pretty close.

Air traffic control recordings are usually unemotional.

But you can hear the Delta pilots' relief when he realizes everything is going to be

okay.

All right, uh, whoo, the Delta flight is for Chris.

Like I said, everyone was fine, but this incident was just one of several recent close calls

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