FAA investigates Southwest near miss after air traffic control sends jets on collision course

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a reported adjacent telephone betwixt 2 Southwest Airlines flights astatine Nashville International Airport aft 1 craft was directed into the way of different during a go-around, officials said.

According to the FAA, the incidental happened astatine astir 5:30 p.m. connected Saturday arsenic Southwest Flight 507 was approaching the airdrome and initiated a go-around — a modular maneuver successful which a aviator aborts a landing and climbs to marque different attempt.

The aviator past "received instructions from aerial postulation power that enactment the formation successful the way of different airplane" that was departing from a parallel runway. The departing craft was identified arsenic Southwest Flight 1152.

Both formation crews responded to onboard postulation alerts, the FAA said, helping the planes debar a imaginable midair conflict.

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The FAA is investigating the adjacent call. (iStock)

The bureau noted that the accusation is preliminary and taxable to alteration arsenic the probe continues.

Southwest Airlines described the maneuver arsenic precautionary and said the pilots were responding to upwind conditions astatine the time.

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Traffic moves done Nashville International Airport connected Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (George Walker IV/AP Photo)

"While connected attack during gusty winds astatine Nashville International Airport, the Pilots of Southwest Flight 507 executed a precautionary go-around," the hose said successful a statement. "During the go-around, the pilots complied with instructions from aerial postulation power and an onboard postulation alert to debar conflicting with Southwest Flight 1152, which was departing from different runway."

Flight 507 aboriginal landed uneventfully successful Nashville, portion Flight 1152 continued connected to its destination successful Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the airline. No injuries were reported.

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A ramp cause directs a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 airplane to a gate. The hose said the pilots followed instructions.  (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Southwest said it is moving with national authorities arsenic portion of the probe and emphasized that information remains its apical priority.

The FAA has not said however adjacent the 2 craft came to 1 different oregon whether immoderate separation standards were breached. However, determination information appears to amusement the planes getting arsenic adjacent arsenic 500 feet (152 meters) isolated with 1 of them flying conscionable implicit the apical of the different plane, according to FlightRadar24, truthful that would acceptable the authoritative explanation of a adjacent midair collision.

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The probe comes amid continued scrutiny of near-miss incidents astatine U.S. airports, peculiarly those involving craft operating connected parallel runways, wherever coordination betwixt pilots and aerial postulation power is captious to maintaining harmless separation.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.