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The US Federal Aviation Administration said connected Tuesday it was investigating a adjacent telephone at New York’s John F Kennedy world airdrome between 2 rider jets.
“The unit of Republic Airways Flight 4464 performed a go-around astatine John F. Kennedy International Airport aft missing nan intended attack way and flying excessively adjacent to Jazz Aviation Flight 554, which was cleared to land connected a parallel runway. Both formation crews responded to onboard alerts,” nan FAA said successful a connection astir the Monday incident.
“The FAA is investigating nan event,” it added.
The 2 planes came wrong 350ft (107 meters) vertically and 0.62 miles horizontally astatine their closest points, according to flight-tracking work Flightradar24.
The 2 planes went astir and landed without incident, according to an ABC News affiliate. In the air postulation power audio, anti-collision alarms were heard blaring successful nan building and cockpit, nan ABC connection reported.
Controllers told pilots successful some planes to return evasive actions and nan initial landing was aborted before nan jets yet made safe landings, according to nan report.
The pilots told nan controllers they were responding to nan RA alarm, or “resolution advisories”, which is nan astir superior of nan anti-collision warnings pilots tin get, nan study added.
Last month, New York’s LaGuardia airport witnessed a deadly collision erstwhile an Air Canada Express pitchy struck a occurrence truck, sidesplitting nan plane’s 2 pilots.
