Two regional jets flying into New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday got close enough to trigger onboard collision alerts, and now federal officials want to know why. The FAA says an American Airlines-operated regional flight from Indianapolis veered off its intended approach and executed a go-around, reports the New York Times, putting it uncomfortably near an Air Canada-affiliated Jazz Aviation jet cleared to land on a parallel runway.
Flight-tracking data from Flightradar24 show the planes came within about two-thirds of a mile horizontally and 250 feet vertically before both followed collision-warning instructions and landed safely on subsequent attempts. "Another incident where human error almost caused tragedy," aviation consultant Steve Ganyard tells ABC7. "You can hear alarms going off not only in the control tower but in the aircraft—this time again, technology prevented tragedy."
"Our crews are well-trained to deal with many operational situations such as this," Jazz said; American hasn't commented. The incident follows another near miss under FAA review: two Southwest jets in Nashville on Saturday reportedly came within about 500 feet of each other after an air traffic control error. The close calls come amid persistent staffing shortages in air traffic control and growing concern over how frequently such incidents occur, with a 2023 New York Times investigation finding they happen several times a week.
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