ORLANDO, Fla. — A Southwest Airways flight virtually took off from a taxiway — moderately than a runway — at a central Florida airport on Thursday prior to an air visitors controller stopped the airplane, officers stated.
No accidents had been reported, and passengers departing Orlando Global Airport had been accommodated on some other plane heading to their vacation spot of Albany, New York, the airline stated in a commentary. The plane used to be switched to assist facilitate an investigation.
Southwest Flight 3278 have been cleared for takeoff and initiated a takeoff roll on a taxiway after the group mistook the outside for the within reach runway, officers stated. However air visitors controllers canceled the clearance prior to the airplane may take off.
Taxiways are routes utilized by planes to transport at the floor between gates, hangars and runways. Runways are the lengthy, in most cases paved, spaces of airports particularly supposed for takeoffs and landings.
Southwest is operating with the Federal Aviation Management and the Nationwide Transportation Protection Board.
“Not anything is extra essential to Southwest than the Protection of our Shoppers and Workers,” the airline stated in a commentary.
