Air traffic control audio recordings detail controllers shouting for a JetBlue flight to stop its takeoff run as a Southwest Airlines flight began taxiing across the runway in front of it.
ByAudio recordings detail controllers shouting for one flight t to stop its takeoff run as another began taxiing across the runway in front of it.
A controller responsible for the runways at Reagan National had cleared the JetBlue Airways flight to take off at about 7:40 a.m., the recordings from LiveATC.net showed. At around the same time, a controller responsible for taxiing aircraft directed a Southwest Airlines jet across the same runway."JetBlue 1554 stop! 1554 stop!" the tower controller called out.The Southwest pilot replied: "We stopped. We were cleared to cross Runway 4.
Following the incident, the JetBlue plane taxied back to the runway threshold and then took off for Boston Logan.
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