“Stop, stop stop,” an air traffic controller shouted at the pilot of the plane carrying the team.
A university basketball team was very close to sudden death at the Los Angeles International Airport. A plane carrying the Gonzaga U team to LA for a game with UCLA nearly crashed into another aircraft taking off.
An air traffic controller can be heard shouting “Stop, stop, stop!” as the Embraer E135 charter jet managed to slow down and stop just as Delta Flight took off into the air. A collision would have been catastrophic for the occupants of both planes. The incident occurred at around 4:30 pm Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is investigating the incident to discover how two aircraft came so close to colliding, The LA Times reported. The FAA said that the jet carrying the team “proceeded to cross the…
