{"id":294687,"date":"2026-06-03T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294687\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:00:09","slug":"faa-investigates-close-call-between-jet-blue-plane-and-aircraft-near-fort-lauderdale-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294687\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA investigates close call between Jet Blue plane and aircraft near Fort Lauderdale Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a midair scare involving a JetBlue plane and another aircraft near Florida\u2019s Fort Lauderdale Airport, the agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The incident occurred early Monday evening as JetBlue Flight 1256 originated in Ecuador approached the airport, the FAA said.<\/p>\n

At about 6:15 p.m. local time, the JetBlue plane received an onboard alert warning about a nearby aircraft that was \u201cnot in communications with air traffic control,\u201d the FAA said in a statement to NBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat guy\u2019s insane,\u201d the air traffic controller said after the JetBlue pilot successfully navigated away from the other aircraft and avoided a potential collision, according to air traffic control audio.<\/p>\n

The JetBlue plane landed safely in Florida\u2019s third-busiest airport after \u201crequired separation was maintained\u201d between the two aircraft, according to the FAA. <\/p>\n

JetBlue did not immediately comment on the incident when contacted by NBC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The incident comes amid heightened concerns over aviation safety as the industry grapples with a yearslong chronic shortage of air traffic controllers.<\/a><\/p>\n

While most close-call incidents involve small planes<\/a> that lack robust alert systems, close calls involving commercial aircrafts have gained more attention in recent years<\/a>, especially after the midair collision that killed 67 people in Washington, D.C., in January 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a midair scare involving a JetBlue plane and another aircraft near Florida\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-294687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}