The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an incident earlier this week when two airplanes nearly collided near an airport in Syracuse, New York.
A Delta Connection flight was taking off when an American Eagle flight was preparing to land on the same runway, local outlet WABC reported.
The incident happened at about 11:50 a.m. near Syracuse Hancock International Airport, according to the FAA.
“An air traffic controller instructed PSA Airlines 5511 to go around at Syracuse Hancock International Airport to keep it separated from an aircraft that was departing on the same runway,” a spokesperson for the FAA told Fox News.
The planes were about 700 to 1,000 feet from each other vertically, according to FlightRadar24. It is unclear how close they came to each other horizontally.
The FAA is investigating the incident, but it has not classified it as a “close call.”
The near-deadly mishap in Syracuse is the latest in what seems to be frequent close calls.
For example, back in April, a Southwest Airlines and a JetBlue plane nearly collide with each other on runway at Reagan National Airport outside Washington D.C., stopping just 400 feet apart.
Check out the footage of this latest close call, courtesy of NewsChannel 9 WSYR Syracuse: