An Aeromexico aircraft virtually hit a Delta Air Lines aircraft while touchdown in Mexico City on Monday.
FlightRadar24 information reveals Aeromexico Trip 1631 flew over Delta Trip 590 on path 5R at Mexico’s Benito Juarez International Flight terminal prior to continuing to land in advance of it on the exact same path. Both airplane were simply 200 feet apart, according to information from FlightRadar24.
Delta Air Lines claimed the Atlanta-bound trip with 150 individuals onboard got on its launch roll when the staff terminated after observing “one more airplane touchdown before their airplane on the exact same path.”
Airplanes of Mexican airline company Aeromexico taxi at Benito Juarez International Flight Terminal in Mexico City, May 3, 2025.
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In air traffic control service recordings, the Delta pilot can be listened to claiming, “We are hanging on the path” adhered to by a person claiming, “Wow” and “IncreÃble.” (Spanish for “unbelievable.”) It is uncertain if that was claimed by a neighboring pilot or a controller.
The Delta aircraft had actually gotten to a rate of around 60 miles per hour prior to it quit.
The Delta jet went back to its entrance prior to ultimately leaving to its location later on that early morning.
” There are identical paths at Mexico City. So we do not understand if the controller informed the Aeromexico airplane to arrive at the left-hand and not the right-hand path where the Delta jet was,” claimed Steve Ganyard, an ABC Information aeronautics factor and previous competitor pilot. “We likewise do not understand, possibly the tower controller really did not recognize that they had actually gotten rid of the Aeromexico airplane to land while all at once removing the Delta jet to remove.”
In a declaration to ABC, Delta claimed, “Due to the fact that absolutely nothing is more vital than the safety and security of our consumers and individuals, Delta will completely accept authorities as the situations around this trip are examined. We value the trip staff’s activities to keep situational understanding and act promptly– component of Delta’s considerable training.”
Aeromexico claimed the airline company is functioning very closely with the authorities as they perform an in-depth examination of the event. “At Aeromexico, the safety and security of our consumers and staff members is, and will certainly constantly be, our highest possible concern,” the airline company claimed in a declaration.
As authorities check out the event, aeronautics specialists state they will certainly think about whether there was an interaction failing.
” It appears quite clear that there was a failing to interact, either with the tower controllers removing it to airplane for launch at the exact same time they got rid of one to land, or possibly they weren’t clear with a touchdown airplane which path– left or right– it needs to have been arriving at,” claimed Ganyard. “Yet someplace it was a failing to interact.”
The Mexican Aeronautics Authority did not instantly react to ABC Information’ ask for a remark.
