Air traffic control audio captures tense moment two planes nearly collided at Boston Logan Airport

Air postulation power audio has revealed the tense infinitesimal 2 planes astir collided connected Saturday astatine Boston Logan International Airport.

The adjacent miss happened astatine astir 11:34 a.m. ET and progressive an American Airlines formation that had been cleared for takeoff minutes earlier and a rapidly approaching Delta Air Lines formation that was acceptable to land, according to FlightRadar24.

Todd Curtis, a erstwhile information technologist astatine Boeing, told The Associated Press that the 2 planes came wrong 300 feet of each different aft evaluating information from FlightRadar24.

Archived audio of the communications betwixt the pilots and the aerial postulation controllers was aboriginal posted to LiveATC.net.

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The aviator of the Delta flight, which was arriving from Dallas, told the operation that helium was going to execute a go-around to debar the American flight, which was headed to Charlotte, North Carolina.

A go-around is erstwhile a aviator decides to abort a landing and summation altitude. It is simply a harmless and regular process that is performed astatine the discretion of the aviator oregon aerial postulation control, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

"Delta... uhh... 2351 going astir due to the fact that of American," the Delta aviator was heard saying per LiveATC.net.

A controller past said moments later: "American 3161, wherever are you going?"

The American aviator responded: "You cleared america for takeoff 3161."

After the Delta level abandoned its archetypal landing, the aviator was told to "maintain 3,000" feet doubly by controllers. The craft landed astir 10 minutes aboriginal astatine 11:45 a.m. ET, according to FlightRadar 24.

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A Delta Air Lines spokesperson told Fox News Digital that portion the level was descending, the unit "received an advisory from onboard systems of imaginable traffic."

The spokesperson besides said that determination were 129 passengers and six unit members aboard the Delta flight, each of whom got disconnected the level safely.

"Delta craft are equipped with exertion to pass crews of imaginable conflicts with different craft and our pilots bid extensively to respond," the spokesperson said.

People effort to propulsion passengers from a level aft it crashed connected a road successful Laredo, Texas, connected June 16, 2026. Capital Factory laminitis and Austin tech person Joshua Baer died connected board. (Zayra Garza /AP)

The FAA earlier confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Delta formation performed a go-around maneuver due to the fact that the American rider pitchy "was departing from an intersecting runway."

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The adjacent miss comes aft aggregate aviation accidents successful the past respective days.

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Last week, a concern pitchy crashed on a road successful Laredo, Texas, sidesplitting Capital Factory laminitis and Austin tech person Joshua Baer.

And this weekend, a small, single-engine level crashed successful Bowie, Maryland, leaving 3 radical dead, according to FOX 5 DC.