Two passenger airliners nearly collided over the city last week, and the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what went wrong.
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 arriving at JFK Airport came close to a Shuttle America Embraer E170 departing from La Guardia at about 2:40 p.m. on June 13, the FAA said yesterday.
The jets were a half-mile apart horizontally and 200 feet vertically, the FAA said. The required separation is three miles horizontally or 1,000 feet vertically.
The FAA said the planes were “turning away from each other” at the time.
Both landed safely.
Delta declined to give details pending the FAA probe.
The Delta flight originated in Narita, Japan. The Shuttle America was heading for Jacksonville, Fla.