Two planes at Orlando International Airport narrowly avoided a mid-air collision last month, and now the Federal Aviation Administration is trying to understand how the mishap almost happened.
According to Newsmax, a single-engine Cessna was within 500 feet of a Delta 757 airliner that was taking off from OIA. The Cessna pilot, Malik Clarke, said he was forced to take “evasive action” to avoid the commercial aircraft.
“I knew that this didn’t look right; so immediately, I turned right and I climbed as steeply as I could because the Boeing 757 from Delta has a much higher climb rate than the aircraft that I was flying,” Clarke recalled in an interview with ABC News. “If I hadn’t done that evasive maneuver, it’s quite likely there would have been a mid-air collision.”
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The FAA and Delta are both investigating the incident. A Delta spokesman told ABC News “nothing is more important than safety.”
ABC News contributor Steve Ganyard said, “it was somebody’s error to put them in the same part of the sky.”
Whose error is unclear right now.
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