UPDATE – San Antonio International Airport has released a statement on the incident involving a Southwest 737 arriving from Oklahoma City, conducting an emergency maneuver to avoid a collision.
At approximately 3:00 pm today, Air Traffic Control (ATC) confirms that a Southwest Airlines (SWA) plane was still 4.1 miles from San Antonio International Airport when it was instructed by ATC to perform a standard procedure called a “go around maneuver” to maintain a safe distance between itself and another aircraft that was on the runway,” said Tonya Hope with San Antonio International Airport. “The SWA aircraft landed safely on the second approach without incident.
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