Orlando airport stops Southwest Airlines plane trying to take off from taxiway instead of runway

A Southwest Airlines formation was canceled successful Florida aft the craft tried to instrumentality disconnected from a taxiway alternatively of a runway astatine Orlando International Airport, officials said. 

The Federal Aviation Administration is present investigating the incidental involving Southwest Airlines Flight 3278, which was scheduled to depart Orlando for Albany, N.Y., connected Thursday morning. 

"An aerial postulation controller astatine Orlando International Airport canceled the takeoff clearance for Southwest Airlines Flight 3278 astir 9:30 a.m. section clip connected Thursday, March 20, aft the craft began its takeoff rotation connected a taxiway. The taxiway runs parallel to the runway," the FAA told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "No different craft were involved." 

Southwest Airlines said successful a connection Thursday that the level "stopped safely connected a taxiway astatine Orlando International Airport this greeting aft the Crew mistook the aboveground for the adjacent runway."  

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A Southwest formation was canceled astatine the airdrome yesterday aft it tried to instrumentality disconnected from a taxiway, officials said. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"No injuries were reported. Southwest is engaged with the NTSB and FAA to recognize the circumstances of the event," it added. 

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A Southwest Airlines level prepares to depart from a gross astatine Orlando International Airport successful September 2023. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"The hose accommodated Customers connected different craft to their intended destination of Albany," it added. 

"Nothing is much important to Southwest than the Safety of our Customers and Employees," the institution besides said. 

The aborted takeoff successful Orlando happened aft different Southwest formation unit performed a go-around maneuver to debar a imaginable incidental with a backstage pitchy that crossed its way connected the runway astatine Chicago Midway International Airport successful precocious February. (StreamTime Live)

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The incidental happened days aft the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary study suggesting that sunglare whitethorn person been a contributing origin successful the caller adjacent miss involving a Southwest Airlines pitchy astatine Chicago Midway International Airport.