We just heard about this latest doozy: a Delta flight was gearing up to take off from Atlanta and was heading down the runway, when all of a sudden the darn wheel fell off the plane and rolled away.
Revolver: Two private planes collided on the runway of a Houston airport early last week.
New York Times: "We just had a midair," the pilot of the Hawker is heard saying in an audio recording posted on LiveATC.net, which shares live and archived recordings of air traffic control radio transmissions.
" The Times report further revealed that "runway incursions" of the sort described above have nearly doubled, from 987 to 1732, despite the widespread proliferation of advanced technologies.
A follow-up report by the Times revealed that Austin's airport alone has experienced so many close calls as a result of air traffic controller error that a pilot proclaimed, "They're trying to kill us in Austin.
" One such incident involved an air traffic controller clearing a FedEx cargo plane to land on a runway just as a Southwest Airlines jet was set to take off on the same runway.
The air traffic controller in question said the Southwest jet would take off before the FedEx plane got too close, though the two planes ended up just seconds from colliding, with the FedEx plane skimming less than 100 feet over the Southwest jet, whose 128 passengers had no clue how narrowly they just escaped death.
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