Gonzaga Team Plane Averts Disaster

[Col. Bleep]

It almost rolled right in front of a Delta plane taking off at LAX.
The longer video in the article better captures the event.

Harrowing footage shows Gonzaga team plane, Delta jet near-miss on LAX runway

Harrowing footage captured the moment a Delta flight nearly crashed into the Gonzaga University basketball team plane on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

nypost.com

 

[MikeSU02]

 

[M2MPrinciples]

Mark Few flying the plane?

 

[Libero2]

Don’t they have air traffic controllers to make sure stuff like this doesn’t actually happen..? A failure by lots of people. Thankfully nothing seems to have happened in the end

 

[UpstateSM]

Buying another Zags title future. Team of destiny now.

 

[HyattsCuse]

Should have taken the bus.

Seriously, I hope that air traffic controller gets commended. That would have been tragic.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

What were they doing?

 

[Toga]

No bueno

 

[Toga]

What a week to stop sniffing glue.

 

[miamicuse]

That's defense.

 

[JarHeadJim]

What a week to stop sniffing glue.

 

[HoustonCuse]

I bet all of you who made fun of Red for taking a bus to games are kicking yourselves now, eh??!1!!

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Block or charge?

 

[Brooky03]

Don’t they have air traffic controllers to make sure stuff like this doesn’t actually happen..? A failure by lots of people. Thankfully nothing seems to have happened in the end

Initial reports indicate the ATC did their job (before the “stop, stop, stop”). It seems like pilot error based on what information I’ve read so far.

fwiw, which isn’t much, the planes wouldn’t have actually collided if the private jet kept going.