A UPS cargo plan nearly hit another plane at the same Kentucky airport were 14 people were killed in a fiery crash involving one of its cargo planes five months prior.
A Boeing 767 en route to Atlanta aborted its landing at Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville and circle around just after midnight Tuesday (April 14) as a smaller SKQ-25 was taxiing on the runway during a chaotic scene in which audio was captured on LiveATC, WHAS reports.
“Skylab two five stop,” an air traffic controller was heard saying before telling the UPS plane to go around.
“Skylab two five. What are you doing?” the controller then asked before telling the pilot to cross the runway.
The UPS plane narrowly missed the smaller aircraft as shown by its FlightRadar map. UPS spokesperson Michelle Polk said the plane managed to perform the go-around, which occurs when descending planes abandon their landing and continue on a flight path before circling back to the airport, “beautifully” in a statement to WDRB.
Muhammad Ali International Airport serves as a major UPS delivery hub “Worldport” with an estimated 2 million packages processed daily. Last November, a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff, bursting into a fireball and resulting in three crew members and 11 others all being killed.
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