A Delta flight had simply begun its takeoff roll at Benito Juárez Mexico Metropolis Worldwide Airport when a regional jet appeared to fly over the aircraft and land in entrance of it on the identical runway, forcing the Delta pilots to hit the brakes.
Aeromexico Flight 1691, arriving from town of Aguascalientes, touched down on Monday as Atlanta-bound Delta flight 590 was accelerating to provoke takeoff at 7:28 a.m. native time, in keeping with Delta and preliminary flight information from the monitoring website Flightradar24. The info exhibits that the Delta Boeing 737-800 reached 62 knots, or about 71 miles per hour, earlier than pilots stopped the aircraft and halted their takeoff.
The Delta pilots exited the runway and returned to the gate, the airline stated. The aircraft acquired further gasoline and ultimately departed for Atlanta at 9:42 a.m. The flight carrying 144 passengers and 6 crew members landed safely in Atlanta at 3:20 p.m. ET, in keeping with Delta.
“As a result of nothing is extra vital than the security of our prospects and folks, Delta will absolutely cooperate with authorities because the circumstances round this flight are investigated. We admire the flight crew’s actions to keep up situational consciousness and act rapidly – a part of Delta’s intensive coaching,” a Delta spokesperson stated in a press release to CBS Information.
Within the wake of the incident, Delta says it filed stories with the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and Mexico’s Federal Civil Aviation Company, which is the nation’s aviation regulator.
Aeromexico stated it’s working carefully with the corresponding authorities to conduct an investigation. “At Aeromexico, the security of our prospects and workers is, and can all the time be, our highest precedence,” the airline’s assertion stated.
Mexican aviation authorities had no remark when contacted by CBS Information on Tuesday.
Days earlier than the incident in Mexico, the pilot of a SkyWest flight — which was working as Delta Connection — apologized to passengers after performing what he described as an “aggressive maneuver” whereas approaching a runway in Minot, North Dakota, the place the aircraft was set for touchdown. The pilot stated he had carried out the maneuver to keep away from a U.S. Air Power B-52 bomber that gave the impression to be flying alongside “a converging course” along with his aircraft.
The Air Power says its flight crew was in communication with air visitors management however was not advised in regards to the airliner.
SkyWest stated the flight, from Minneapolis, had 76 passengers and 4 crew members on board.
The airline and the FAA are investigating the incident.
