There are some things you never want to hear yelled at your pilot when you're miles in the air, and one of them is 'What are you doing?" If the safety of the skies seems a little shaky lately, here's more evidence to back up that feeling.
A UPS plane, which was a Boeing 767, traveling from Atlanta to Louisville just after midnight Tuesday was forced to abort its landing. That's because it was on a collision course with a smaller SKQ-25 plane that was taxiing on the runway, WHAS reported.
An air traffic controller was heard yelling, “What are you doing?” "Two-Five, stop!" they yelled before ordering the UPS plane to go around. "SkyLab Two-Five, what are you doing?"
The answer later recorded was, "Sorry about that."
Hear the audio below.
K5 reported flight data shows light data shows the UPS plane was around 500 feet from the ground before jumping up to 1,500 feet.
A UPS spokeswoman explained to local media the go-around was carried out perfectly.
"I do not have that information," she said when asked how close the UPS plane came to the one on the tarmac.
This incident was at the same Kentucky airport where 14 people were killed in a fiery cargo plane crash — and it follows a crash that killed two pilots in March at LaGuardia Airport in New York where an Air Canada plane slammed into a fire truck that was on the tarmac.
An investigation of the deadly New York incident is still underway, but CNN recently reported that Air traffic control had cleared both to be on the runway, and the Air Canada jet was traveling at 104 miles per hour when it hit the truck.
