( KTLA ) – An investigation is underway after a private jet was ordered to stop taxiing toward a departing Delta flight on an active runway at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon.
Video footage shared by Airline Videos Live shows the jet creeping toward the runway as the Delta aircraft takes off. An air traffic controller can be heard calling for the jet to “stop, stop, stop” as the Delta flight takes off.
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The Embraer E135 jet that was ordered to stop taxiing had just arrived from Spokane, Washington, and carried the Gonzaga men’s college basketball team, as earlier reported by the Los Angeles Times. The flight was operated by Colorado-based Key Lime Air.
Both planes appeared to operate normally after the tense moment, the footage shows.
The FAA, in a statement, said the jet never actually crossed onto the active runway.
“Air traffic controllers directed Key Lime Air Flight 563 to hold short of crossing a runway at Los Angeles International Airport because a second aircraft was taking off from the runway at the time,” reads a statement shared by the FAA. “When the Embraer E135 jet proceeded to cross the hold bars, air traffic controllers told the pilots to stop. The jet never crossed the runway edge line.”