A Senate committee hearing in Washington showed lawmakers exactly how close Southwest Airlines and FedEx jets came to colliding earlier this month at Austin-Ber...
, according to the agency’s preliminary investigation. According to the FAA and NTSB, the air traffic controller directed a FedEx Boeing 767 aircraft to land and then shortly after gave instructions to a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 to use the same runway to take off.
WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz shows a video simulation of a near miss as a FedEx jet was landing in Austin at the same time a Southwest Airlines plane was taking off. Cruz, who said he frequently flies on Dallas-based Southwest Airlines in and out of Austin, brought upto grill acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen on a series of commercial aviation safety incidents in recent weeks.
“If you were sitting on that Southwest flight and you knew how close you came to having a plane landing on top of you, killing every person on that plane, you would understandably be horrified,” Cruz said. “It is only through, as I understand, the heroism of the pilots, being alert and seeing what was happening, that tragedy was averted.”
That was just after Cruz played a video simulation that shows a FedEx 767 jet and a Southwest Airlines jet nearly colliding on the runway in Austin.
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