The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into a near miss involving two commercial aircraft Saturday morning at Boston Logan International Airport.
According to the FAA and flight records, a Delta Air Lines flight arriving from Dallas was forced to perform a go-around—an aborted landing—to avoid an American Airlines jet taking off from an intersecting runway.
A Delta spokesperson said the crew of Flight 2351 worked with air traffic controllers as they carried out the go-around maneuver.
The aircraft, carrying 129 passengers and six crew members, later landed without incident, and everyone exited the plane normally, the spokesperson said.
American Airlines and airport officials directed questions about the incident to the FAA.
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The FAA describes go-arounds as standard, safe procedures that may be initiated by pilots or ordered by air traffic controllers when conditions warrant.
The episode follows a string of aviation incidents and accidents reported in recent days.
Also on Saturday, the founder of a gaming company was killed in a plane crash in France.
Earlier this week a business jet crashed in Laredo, Texas, killing one person on board.
A B-52 crashed Monday during a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California and killed all eight people aboard.
And last Sunday 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
