Hair-rising moment American Airlines is in near miss during take-off as pilot is forced to slam on the brakes at 110mph when private King aircraft lands in its path at Reagan National Airport

UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/30/2024 | PAUL FARRELL

[DFG]

An American Airlines plane came close to smashing into a private aircraft on the runway of Reagan National Airport on Wednesday morning, according to reports.

Audio shows an air traffic controller canceling the take off clearance for the AA flight 2134 as the private King Air plane was set to land on an intersecting runway at 10:21am local time.

As the cancelation goes through, the pilot in the private aircraft, a Hawker Beechcraft, reveals he's already on the ground in Arlington, Virginia. Regan National Airport is also known as DCA.

The King plane was cleared to land at Runway 33.

The controller says: 'American 2134 cancel takeoff clearance... zero alpha alpha go around, go around.'

The American Airlines pilot responds: 'Rejecting the takeoff 2134.' The King pilot chimes in at that point to say: 'Zero alpha alpha, cannot go around, we are already on the ground.'

Then, the controller says: 'American 2134, do you want to go back to the gate?' The American pilot confirms that they have to talk to maintenance.

'I think we were above 80 knots so we're going to have to get an inspection.'

Aviation expert Tom Kinton said that the pilot in the American flight was 'almost at the point of no return,' according to WCVB.

He added that the two planes were 1,300 feet apart at their closest point. 'That closes real quick if that American was continuing down the runway at that speed,' Kinton added.

[1Old Pro]

No worries, Pete is blaming this on climate change.

[VTenigma]

Obama; Diversity is our strength.

[Red Badger]

Aviation Ping!.................

[G Larry]

Air Traffic Controller's have had their standards lowered for years now.

It was the subject of much discussion here on FR in the last 5-10 years.

[V_TWIN]

Don’t tell me they let Harrison Ford behind the stick again!

[V_TWIN]

“Diversity is our strength”

And occasionally death

[ducttape45]

Oh man, a near miss!

[TexasKamaAina]

If I’m reading this right (it’s not 100% clear to me) both pilots were following air traffic control instructions. Can any Freepers clarify?

[Red Badger]

8 seconds to disaster................

[6ppc]

What is a Hawker Beechcraft???

[SaveFerris]

Yep

[DCBryan1]

[Red Badger]

An aircraft..................

[BereanBrain]

DEI

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Beechcraft

[Tommy Revolts]

Comforts me to know that Air Traffic Controller qualifications
are based on skin color and gender identity now. There were
way too many white males before.

I'll talk later, I have a flight to catch.

[Bullish]

This should never happen. There are safeguards in place. Someone in ATC should probably lose their job or be retrained.

[Bullish]

Please add me to aviation ping as I’m a lifelong sim pilot.

thanks.

[stevio]

The air traffic controller sounded like an obamanite.