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Collision but here's the deal, a 767 lands at 180 miles per hour, 280 feet per second which means at one point, the planes were less than four seconds away from colliding. it's interesting that the air traffic controllers told the southwest plane to abort takeoff and get off the runway but instead, the southwest pilot said negative and got airborne instead. the ntsb is investigating but we're still waiting for more information on that near miss that happened last month at jfk between a delta air lines plane and an american airlines plane, also only about 1,000 feet apart. in the meantime, tran...

>> a fedex 767 wa minutes from touching down at austen's saturday morning in foggy weather when air traffic controllers gave the fight permission to take off from the same runway. >> cleared for takeoff. >> preliminary data shows the fedex jet passing directly over the southwest 737 and the 120 people on board. >> fedex is on the go. >> no one was hurt but appears the planes were separated by only 75 feet before the fedex pilots pulled up. >> the tail on this boeing 737 is about 41 feet above the ground, so this was potentially a very close event. >> reporter: former nts be chairman >> the fed...

Narrowly avoiding crashing into another plane, that was given the go ahead to take off from the same runway. christina coleman joins us live with the details, hello, christina. christina: hi, mike, yeah, close call, fortunately those planes did not collide, the fedex boeing 767 cargo plane was to land in austin airport yesterday morning but had to reverse course to avoid hitting plane from southwest airlines cleared to take off on the same runway. fortunately fedex flight was able to circle the airport and safely land after the close encounter. the incident is now under investigation by the nt...

Used for overseas international flights. where these planes? why so many? why now? >> well, you know, this is a really big step for united. but it is just following what we really started two years ago, here in the middle of the pandemic, we thought that we would fully recover, started taking steps for united to take advantage of that. we're coming out of this as the flag carrier of the united states, and the leading airline around the globe. this is just the next step in that path to, one, replace our older 767s that are at the end of their life, but also to create growth opportunities for th...

Battling tight capacity, supply chain disruptions and strained networks, carriers have been looking to diversify and build out their fleets in anticipation of future growth. Israel-based Challenge Airlines IL, formerly CAL Cargo, is one of many carriers looking to diversify and strengthen its fleet. In line with its rebrand, Challenge Airlines IL intends to move