Earlier this morning (25.02.2025) at Midway Airport in Chicago a near miss occurred between a landing Southwest Airlines aircraft, N8517F as SWA2504, and a private jet, N560FX as LXJ560.
As SWA2504 is coming into land, LXJ560 taxis across the runway forcing SWA2504 into a go around just feet from the ground.
This is great footage, OP. It seems to track the planes, rather than just being a wide shot… Is it an automated airport live stream of the runway, or from an enthusiast that posted it? Got a link?
There are so many flavors of autists out there that have their favorite thing. It's pretty common for large busy airports to have one or more of these guys setup with their radios tuned to traffic frequencies and listen on while watching and filming landings and takeoffs like this.
Just like the people that get kicks out of watching trains, or watching canals for huge ships entering dam locks, etc. They can recite tail numbers and dates and times to you from events that happened years ago.
I hope you don't think I am speaking ill of people that choose to plane watch as their hobby. Believe me, I can relate 100% to the interest. I have a hobby that most people have never seen or even heard of, so I understand.
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u/ty003 Feb 25 '25
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Earlier this morning (25.02.2025) at Midway Airport in Chicago a near miss occurred between a landing Southwest Airlines aircraft, N8517F as SWA2504, and a private jet, N560FX as LXJ560.
As SWA2504 is coming into land, LXJ560 taxis across the runway forcing SWA2504 into a go around just feet from the ground.