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Steve Ganyard

National Interest
Delta Flight Narrowly Avoids Collision With Another Jet Before Takeoff Delta Flight Narrowly Avoids Collision With Another Jet Before Takeoff
Delta Flight Narrowly Avoids Collision With Another Jet Before Takeoff A Delta Air Lines crew was forced to slam the brakes on its takeoff when an arriving jet swooped onto the same runway and passed barely 200 feet overhead. Delta Flight 590, heading to Atlanta and carrying 144 passengers, had reached approximately 70 mph on a runway at Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City on Monday, July 21, according to a report by CBS News and data from FlightRadar24.  The pilots noticed an Aeromexico jet descending ahead of them and decided to abort the takeoff. “We are holding on the runway,” the Delta captain radioed; another voice replied “Wow”…

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