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American Airlines plane forced to abort takeoff after another jet veers onto same runway at Miami airport
New York Post • • business
Key Points:
- An American Airlines Airbus A319 bound for Bermuda aborted take-off at Miami airport after a private jet unauthorizedly entered the same runway, bringing the two planes within a third of a mile of each other.
- Air traffic controllers and the pilots exchanged tense communications as the American Airlines plane, carrying 112 passengers, braked from 60 mph to avoid a collision.
- The FAA confirmed the private plane was not authorized to be on the runway, and an investigation into the incident is ongoing; NetJets, the operator of the private jet, has not commented.
- The American Airlines flight departed Miami about two hours late and landed safely in Bermuda just before midnight local time.
- Separately, a near miss involving a United Airlines plane and a drone was reported at Newark airport, with the pilot noting the drone was about 100 feet below; the flight landed safely and passengers disembarked normally.
