Video Captures DRMATIC MOMENT Passenger Plane Aborts Landing To Avoid Collision With Jet

Pilots of a Southwest Airlines flight had to abort their landing at Chicago’s Midway Airport on Tuesday morning to avoid a collision with another plane crossing the runway. The video of the incident surfaced on social media and went viral. A webcam video on X shows the Southwest plane nearing the runway just before 9 a.m. when it suddenly pulls up. A smaller jet is seen crossing the runway at the same time the passenger plane was approaching. Southwest Flight 2504 safely landed “after the crew performed a precautionary go-around to avoid a possible conflict with another aircraft that entered the runway,” an airline spokesperson said in an email. “The crew followed safety procedures and the flight landed without incident.” An audio recording of communication between the smaller jet and the control tower captured its pilot misstating instructions from a ground tower employee, who repeated that the pilot should “hold short” of a runway. About 30 seconds later, the ground tower ordered the pilot to “hold your position there.”