‘Stop, stop, stop’: Air traffic control intervenes to avoid plane collision on LAX runway
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The Key Lime Air Flight 563 was directed to ‘hold short’ of crossing a runway where a second plane was taking off. A private jet carrying a college basketball team narrowly avoided colliding with a departing flight at Los Angeles International airport, after a last minute intervention from air traffic control.
![[The close call incident occurred at around 4.30 p.m. on December 27 at LAX]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/30/16/newFile-6.jpg)
The Key Lime Air Flight 563 was directed to “hold short” of crossing a runway where a second plane was taking off, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The incident happened at around 4.30 p.m. on Friday December 27. Plane spotter Kevin Ray, who created the YouTube channel where the video was posted, can be heard exclaiming: “Wow! In the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never heard an ATC controller tell a plane to ‘Stop, stop, stop,’”.
![[The private jet carrying a team of college basketball players narrowly avoided colliding with another plane on the runway]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/30/16/newFile-5.jpg)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was investigating the close-call incident but said that the private jet “never crossed the runway edge line.”. “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,” the FAA said in a statement, shared with The Independent.
“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… The FAA will investigate.”. The Key Lime Air Flight had just arrived from Washington state, and was transporting the Gonzaga University’s men’s basketball team to LA, ahead of a match with UCLA the following day.
