WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday it is investigating a near-collision of two airborne jetliners at JFK International Airport in New York over the weekend, one of which was executing a “go around.”
The NTSB said initial reports indicate a Cayman Airways Boeing 737-300 and a LAN Chile Boeing 767-300 almost collided Saturday. Combined, such planes carry nearly 350 passengers.
Air-traffic controllers said the planes came within 100 feet vertically and there was no observable distance horizontally between them, sending the controllers scrambling to put the planes on divergent headings.
At the time, the Cayman flight was executing a routine “go around” — an aborted landing that can be initiated by the pilot or the control tower.
