FedEx Cargo Plane And Southwest Airlines Passenger Flight In A Potential Collision Call At Texas Airport, Safety Board Investigates

FedEx Corp FDX cargo plane coming to land at a Texas airport could have collided with Southwest Airlines Co's LUV passenger jet was taking off using the same runway.
The planes came within a thousand feet of each other Saturday morning near a runway at the Austin, Texas, airport, a close call that air-safety officials are investigating.
FedEx Boeing Co BA 767 cargo plane was cleared to land on one of the runways at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said, citing preliminary information, Wall Street Journal reported.
The FedEx cargo plane had abruptly changed course.
The pilot for the FedEx flight stopped landing procedures and proceeded to climb, the FAA spokesman said. The Southwest jetliner could take off safely.
"Southwest abort. FedEx is on the go," could be heard in an audio recording of communications from an air-traffic control facility, WSJ writes..
The National Transportation Safety Board initially sent two investigators to Austin to investigate what happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board called the incident in a tweet a "possible runway incursion and overflight."
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Aviation-safety regulators have raised concerns about the potential for collisions on runways and taxiways in recent years. They have adopted new systems to reduce close calls between planes on runways.