There were 171 passengers and six crew members on board the commercial flight from Portland, Ore.
NEED TO KNOW
- An Alaska Airlines plane and a FedEx cargo plane nearly collided on intersecting runways at Newark International Airport in New Jersey on Tuesday, March 17
- The Alaska Airlines plane, which had 171 passengers and six crew members on board, narrowly avoided the FedEx plane by 300 to 325 feet
- The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident
A commercial plane and a cargo plane almost collided at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Tuesday, March 17.
An Alaska Airlines 737 and a FedEx 777 cargo plane were both attempting to land on intersecting runways around 8:17 p.m. local time, according to a Federal Aviation Administration news release issued on Thursday, March 19.
The planes nearly collided after the Alaska Airlines Flight 294 was instructed by air traffic controllers “to perform a go-around” at the airport, as the FedEx Flight 721 was “cleared for the final approach to an intersecting runway,” according to the FAA…