Oct. 27, 2009 8:32 a.m. | The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into why a Midwest Airlines jet on the runway at the Los Angeles International Airport nearly collided Sunday with a Northwest Airlines jet.
Midwest flight 1503 had just arrived from Milwaukee when the Embraer E-190 came less than 100 feet from colliding with a Northwest Boeing 757 that was rolling down the runway to take off for Honolulu,
according to the Contra Costa Times newspaper.
The paper quotes a FAA spokesman as saying the Midwest jet's pilot had been told to turn onto another taxiway and stop, but the plane continued toward the path of the Northwest jet. An air traffic controller noticed and ordered the Midwest jet to stop.