Aircraft Accidents

The FAA is forming a team of experts to examine flight safety after several recent close calls involving commercial planes. A FedEx Boeing 767 was about to land at Austin's International Airport as a Southwest Airlines 737 was told to take off from the same runway. The two planes came within a hundred feet of colliding in thick fog. It comes three weeks after another near collision at JFK, where a Delta Airlines flight abruptly stopped its take off as an American Airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of it. In December, a United Airlines plane departing Maui took a nose dive, plummeting more than 1,400 feet in about 20 seconds coming within 775 feet of the Pacific Ocean.