{"id":104577,"date":"2025-12-30T05:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104577\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:33:19","slug":"two-airlines-nearly-collide-taking-off-from-houstons-bush-intercontinental-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104577\/","title":{"rendered":"Two airlines nearly collide taking off from Houston&#8217;s Bush Intercontinental Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/02\/us-news\/nyc-delta-jets-collide-at-laguardia-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Two jets\u00a0<\/a>narrowly avoided a collision while departing Houston\u2019s Bush Intercontinental Airport earlier this month, prompting a federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A Volaris Airlines flight bound for El Salvador made an unauthorized right turn into the path of a United Express flight headed to Jackson, Mississippi, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic control instructed Volaris Flight 4321 to turn left after departing Houston Intercontinental Airport on Dec. 18, but instead, the crew turned right towards CommuteAir Flight 814, which departed from a parallel runway,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/28\/us-news\/2-helicopters-collide-crash-in-new-jersey-harrowing-video-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the FAA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Airlines is a partial owner of CommuteAir.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 3:05 p.m. local time. The FAA said it is still investigating.<\/p>\n<p>CommuterAir told FOX Business that, based on its initial assessment, its \u201ccrew followed all applicable ATC instructions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38050147\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-airlines-across-us-canceled-118006743.jpg\" alt=\"Silhouette of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic control tower at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH).\" class=\"wp-image-38050147\"  \/>Two jets narrowly avoided a collision at Houston\u2019s Bush Intercontinental Airport, prompting a federal investigation. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>FOX Business reached out to Volaris for comment. The airport deferred comment to the FAA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Intercontinental Airport sees an average of 500 daily arriving flights and over 20 million passenger arrivals annually, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/31\/us-news\/united-airlines-planes-collide-at-laguardia-we-all-felt-a-bump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">airport\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38050146\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/united-states-revoked-approval-13-114443762.jpg\" alt=\"A Volaris airplane takes off from Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) against a clear blue sky.\" class=\"wp-image-38050146\"  \/>Volaris Flight 4321 (not pictured) turned right instead of left into CommuteAir Flight 814\u2019s path on Dec. 18. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rise in close calls and related safety incidents in the airline industry, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has maintained that it is safe to fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated the message ahead of the Christmas holiday, a time when thousands of passengers crowd airports nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw that as we were getting into the last days of the shutdown, we reduced the capacity of airlines by 10% because we saw the trend lines going in the wrong direction. We will take whatever steps are necessary to make sure the airspace is safe,\u201d Duffy told\u00a0FOX Business\u2019 Maria Bartiromo\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two jets\u00a0narrowly avoided a collision while departing Houston\u2019s Bush Intercontinental Airport earlier this month, prompting a federal investigation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6421,736,56,58,57,3003,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-104577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-airplanes","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-plane-crashes","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}