Close call at Atlanta airport forces Delta anti-collision alarms to sound

Cockpit alarms blared arsenic 2 Delta Air Lines jets narrowly avoided each different implicit Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a frightening adjacent miss present nether national investigation.

The incidental betwixt the 2 Delta flights happened astir 11 p.m. Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Fox News Digital successful a statement.

"Delta Air Lines Flight 2472 was departing from Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport erstwhile it crossed successful beforehand of Delta Air Lines Flight 1568, which had executed a pilot-initiated go-around due to the fact that different craft was dilatory to exit the aforesaid runway," the FAA said.

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Delta craft astatine Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport successful Atlanta, Ga., connected Aug. 8, 2016. (REUTERS/Tami Chappell)

On-board anti-collision informing systems sounded successful the cockpit arsenic 1 aviator could beryllium heard uttering, "My goodness," according to aerial postulation power audio obtained by CBS News.

Delta told Fox News Digital successful a connection that the maneuver was successful accordance with established procedures and that its unit undergoes extended grooming for these types of uncommon scenarios.

The aerial postulation power operation astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) successful Atlanta, Georgia, US, connected Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"As information remains astatine the halfway of everything we do, the unit of Delta Flight 1568 performed a go-around during attack into Atlanta owed to imaginable postulation connected the runway," Delta said. "During the go-around, the unit maneuvered successful accordance with established procedures to support separation from different aerial traffic."

A young traveler stops to look astatine a Delta Airlines level parked astatine Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport connected June 28, 2024, successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Andrew Harnik)

The hose said that the formation landed safely and passengers deplaned normally.

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The FAA said the incidental is nether investigation. Delta said it volition afloat cooperate with authorities connected immoderate review.