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Good evening. as close calls go, this one was way too close. two planes loaded with passengers on two runways at chicago's midway airport. both pilots thought they were cleared for takeoff. started rolling down the runway. right toward each other. nbc's tom costello tonight with what happened next. >> reporter: it happened on intercepting runways at chicago midway. >> stop, stop. >> delta 1328 aborting. >> reporter: an alert air traffic controller screaming at a delta plane on a collision course with a southwest plane. >> delta 1328, stop, stop, stop. >> delta 1328 aborting. >> reporter: as cl...

In. the faa investigating a near-collision at chicago's midway airport. two jets were taking off at the same time on intersecting runways when an air traffic controller yelled for one of the planes to stop. here now, abc's david kerley. >> reporter: at chicago's midway airport, two jets on a collision course with similar flight numbers, trouble on the radio. >> runway 3-1 center clear for takeoff. the wind 0-6-0 center. >> reporter: that's a southwest jet, flight 3828, getting cleared. but a delta flight, 1328, is lined up on an intersecting runway and it starts rolling for takeoff, too. the...

Muntha saleh, in a boston marathon-style attack. saleh was arrested this weekend after he studied how to build a pressure cooker bomb and researched potential targets. aaron katersky, abc news, new york. a close call at chicago's midway airport. a southwest jet cleared for takeoff began rolling down the runway. at the same time, an air traffic controller noticed a delta jet beginning takeoff from an intersecting runway without permission. the controller yelled for the delta plane to stop and a collision was narrowly avoided. the planes had similar flight numbers, and that was part of the rea...

To ask for what was going none the airplane not too far away from this aircraft. trace: you would think some news agency would figure out the flight numbers, how bad was it up there? the pilots would say it was scary. >> we are starting to know from the radar track there was an increase in altitude short reply before it dropped. trace: the sonar has a good field of wreckage. there are some reports the plane is -- at least a large chunk of this plane is intact which is hard to believe. >> it would be hard to believe given the angle of the descent of this aircraft.

March and they looked at the board with the flight numbers on it and they saw the flight and it said delay next to mh-370 and then only an hour after the plane was supposed to have landed they learned that plane was missing and, of course, we've all covered those awful days and weeks that followed where it was a painfully slow, inconsistent release of information. families were furious. they were grief stricken. they were numb. and there were a lot of hard lessons learned from the response to that crash. in the case of this flight, airasia 8501, it did take several hours before announcements w...