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Delta flight frantically halts takeoff as another plane almost lands on top of it in heart-pounding scene [Mexico City]
ny post ^ | 07/23/2025 | Emily Crane

Posted on 07/23/2025 6:54:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A US-bound Delta flight with at least 150 people onboard was forced to hit the brakes during takeoff in Mexico this week when another jet nearly landed on top of it.

Delta Flight 590 had just started rolling down the runway at Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez in Mexico City on Monday when the regional AeroMéxico plane suddenly flew overhead and landed in front of it, Flightradar 24 data showed.

The regional jet came within less than 200 feet of the Atlanta-bound Delta flight, CNN reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 07/23/2025 6:54:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Alert! Wake turbulence!


2 posted on 07/23/2025 6:56:40 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: BenLurkin

yea, this shouldn’t happen.


3 posted on 07/23/2025 6:59:07 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BenLurkin; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...

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


4 posted on 07/23/2025 7:01:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BenLurkin

Aeromexico puts graffiti on their planes??????????


5 posted on 07/23/2025 7:02:18 AM PDT by Donbue
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To: BenLurkin

Well, EXCUUUUSE ME!


6 posted on 07/23/2025 7:02:27 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Somehow they will blame Trump for this..................


7 posted on 07/23/2025 7:03:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like AeroMexico tried to turn the Delta jet into a taco shell. A Runway Taco.


8 posted on 07/23/2025 7:20:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

CPAC meeting there.


9 posted on 07/23/2025 7:24:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BenLurkin

Aeromexico puts graffiti on their planes??????????


10 posted on 07/23/2025 7:27:53 AM PDT by Donbue
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To: BenLurkin

A colleague was killed in the 1991 crash at LAX when a United Airlines 737 landed on top of a Skywest turboprop on the runway.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 7:28:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Shades of Tenerife.


12 posted on 07/23/2025 7:28:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Delta sure has been in the news lately


13 posted on 07/23/2025 7:29:46 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Don’t
Ever
Leave
The
Airport


14 posted on 07/23/2025 7:30:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That was a (tragic) tower controller error, IIRC.


15 posted on 07/23/2025 7:47:06 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: BenLurkin

Why no video?


16 posted on 07/23/2025 7:48:07 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: BenLurkin

The AeroMexico pilot will need to write down a phone number from the tower—for a diving job at Casa Bonita.


17 posted on 07/23/2025 7:56:58 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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PLEASE just post videos from YouTube and not trash, ad-drowning NYPost links, that only make Lachlan Murdoch richer.


18 posted on 07/23/2025 8:12:21 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger
Somehow they will blame Trump for this..................

Or global warming

19 posted on 07/23/2025 8:18:14 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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20 posted on 07/23/2025 8:20:30 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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