Southwest Aircraft and private Jet Experience Close Call in Chicago Midway

Chicago –

A plane in Southwest Airlines and a private jet who entered the runway without permission experienced the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday morning at Chicago International Airport.

Watch the video about the incident in the video player above.

The Southwest Flight 2504 landed safely at Chicago Airport after the flight crew had to carry out a potential incident, according to Southwest.

The FAA examines the incident that took place around 8:50 a.m. local time.

The close call comes when the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA examine a number of security incidents in the past few weeks, including the deadly collision with Midair about the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a Medevac -Jet crash In Philadelphia and a fatal regional airline crashes off the Nome coast.

In the incident in Chicago, the south -west plane from Omaha, Nebraska, and the private jet, a Bombardier Challenger 350, came to Knoxville, Tennessee, according to Flighttradar24.

The air traffic control instructed the private jet to turn left on “Runway 4L, Cross Runway 31l and Hold in front of Runway 31c”.

The pilot replies: “Okay, left on 2 – UH – 4L, cross the 22 or 13c, Flexjet 560.”

Then the air traffic controller on the floor immediately responds to the pilot “Flexjet 560, negative! Cross 31l, short runway 31c. “

Audio of air traffic control from the tower also shows the moment the pilot of the south-west aircraft has decided to carry out the go-around to avoid the aircraft on the runway.

Air traffic controllers Answer: “-West 2504, UH, Roger das. Climbing, 3,000 maintained. “

As soon as the aircraft reached 3,000 feet in the air, the pilot asked the tower: “Südwest 2504, um, how did that happen?”.

“The crew pursued security procedures and the flight ended up without incidents,” said a spokesman for the southwest in an e -mail to CNN. “Nothing is more important for the southwest than the security of our customers and employees.”

CNN has contacted the National Transportation Safety Board to get a comment on the incident at Midway Airport.