Southwest Airlines plane in Orlando tried to take off from taxiway

A flight from Southwest Airways was canceled in Florida after the aircraft tried to depart a taxi bathtub as a substitute of a runway on the Worldwide Airport of Orlando, officers stated.

The Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the incident with Southwest Airways Flight 3278, which would depart for Orlando on Thursday morning for Albany, NY.

“An air site visitors controller at Orlando Worldwide Airport canceled the speech for Southwest Airways Flight 3278 round 9:30 am native time on Thursday 20 March, after the plane began its beginning function on a taxiway. The taxi runs parallel to the runway,” stated the FAA FOX Information Digital in a press release. “There have been no different aircraft concerned.”

SouthWest Airways stated on Thursday in a press release that the aircraft “stopped safely this morning on a taxiway on Orlando Worldwide Airport after the crew had seen the floor for the close by runway.”

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A southwest flight was canceled on the airport yesterday after it tried to depart a taxiway, officers stated. (Paul Hennessy/Sopa photographs/Lighttrocket through Getty photographs)

“No accidents have been reported. Southwest is busy with the NTSB and FAA to know the circumstances of the occasion,” it added.

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A aircraft from Southwest Airways is making ready to depart from a gate on the Worldwide Airport of Orlando in September 2023. (Paul Hennessy/Sopa photographs/Lighttrocket through Getty photographs)

“The airline has constructed prospects on one other aircraft into their supposed vacation spot of Albany,” it added.

“Nothing is extra essential for Southwest than the security of our prospects and workers,” the corporate stated too.

The demolition began in Orlando after one other Southwest cockpit crew had carried out a steady maneuver to forestall a doable incident with a personal jet that crossed his path on the runway on Chicago Halfway Worldwide Airport on the finish of February. (StreamTime Reside)

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The incident occurred days after the Nationwide Transportation Security Board had launched a provisional report that means that Sunglare might have been a contributing issue within the current virtually Miss with a Southwest Airways -Jet on Chicago Halfway Worldwide Airport.