Summary<\/p>\n
A JetBlue passenger jet and a flight school plane came within 500 vertical feet of each other near Fort Lauderdale on Monday.
\n Air traffic control audio captured the moments as pilots reported a collision alert and climbed to avoid the smaller aircraft.
\n The FAA is investigating the close call, which occurred in airspace where student pilots commonly train and communication with air traffic control is generally not required.<\/p>\n
\n AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/p>\n
\n The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a close call between a flight school-owned Beechcraft 76 plane and a JetBlue Airways passenger jet that came within 500 feet of one another on Monday.\n <\/p>\n
\n The close call happened around 6:15 p.m. near Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as JetBlue Flight 1256 was approaching for landing. JetBlue pilots received \u201can onboard alert that another aircraft was nearby and not in communications with air traffic control,\u201d the FAA said.\n <\/p>\n
\n A controller alerted pilots on Flight 1256 of the aircraft nearby, according to air traffic control audio captured by ATC.com. The Beechcraft 76 was registered to Sun City Aviation LLC, FAA records show. CNN has reached out to Sun City Aviation and JetBlue for comment.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cYeah, they\u2019re turning toward us,\u201d one pilot in the cockpit of the JetBlue aircraft can be heard saying on the ATC.com recording.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI see them also descending,\u201d the controller replied. \u201cYup, they are southwest bound, JetBlue 1256. They appear to be leveling at 4,400 feet now.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The two planes came within 500 feet vertically of one another and approximately 1.6 miles horizontally, data from FlightRadar24 shows.\n <\/p>\n
\n Pilots told controllers they received a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System notification, or TCAS, then flew higher to avoid the other plane. The required separation was maintained, the FAA said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat guy\u2019s insane,\u201d a controller told the pilot about 20 seconds later. The pilot responded, \u201cI agree.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Open-source flight tracking data shows the aircraft appeared to have been operating in visual flight conditions in airspace west of Fort Lauderdale where pilots are generally not required to be in contact with air traffic control. The data indicates the aircraft was equipped with a functioning transponder.\n <\/p>\n
\n The flight also took place in an area identified on FAA charts for concentrated flight training activity, where student pilots and training aircraft are common. Historical weather records indicate visual flight conditions at the time, meaning pilots would have been responsible for maintaining separation by seeing and avoiding other aircraft.\n <\/p>\n
\n Recently, several close calls have occurred at airports across the country. In April<\/a>, a plane landing at New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport strayed into the flight path of a jet landing on a parallel runway. Last year<\/a>, most notably, 67 people died when an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet collided over the Potomac River.\n <\/p>\n \n CNN\u2019s Graham Hurley contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary A JetBlue passenger jet and a flight school plane came within 500 vertical feet of each other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-294923","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\/294923","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=294923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}