14 points samch 59 minutes ago 4 comments
samch 59 minutes ago | parent
Two planes, the same airport, crossing paths.
dmazzoni 22 minutes ago | parent
(This is from August 19, it was widely reported at the time.)
kayson 18 minutes ago | parent
It's even worse than just the same flight number. Both were at PHX, one landing, one taking off at the same time. Kudos to a clever ATC for preventing what could've been a catastrophe: https://youtu.be/93lLXNsWp9Q
Sophira 9 minutes ago | parent
The YouTube video you link to is actually about a separate incident from the one described in the article. The video is about an incident involving two AAL2482s near Phoenix; the article is about an incident involving two 5083s near Providence. (I'm not sure of the exact callsign for American Eagle flights.)
It's the same idea though; one was inbound, the other outbound, and ATC had to distinguish between the two.
[edit: Corrected locations.]
[edit 2: I misread "American Eagle" as "American Airlines", so I had mixed up the callsigns.]