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Tense Air Traffic Control Audio Captures Terrifying Close Call: ‘What Are You Doing?!’
April 17, 2026
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FlightRadar24A UPS jet narrowly avoided colliding with another plane at the same airport where 14 people were killed in November. Air traffic control at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport was heard yelling, “What are you doing?” as a single-propeller PC12 encroached into the landing path of a Boeing 767 on Tuesday. “Skylab two five. What are you doing?” the controller asked as flight SKQ-25 taxied toward the runway where the larger plane was about to touch down from Atlanta.
Controllers then told the UPS jet to perform a go-around and said, “Skylab two five stop,” before instructing it to cross the runway when the path was clear. Recording from LiveATC picked up controllers later apologizing to the UPS plane, saying, “Sorry about that.” WDRB reports that UPS spokesperson Michelle Polk said the UPS pilot carried out the go-around “beautifully,” and that “there was no operational impact.” An FAA spokesman said that “required separation was maintained.” In November, an incident involving UPS Airlines Flight 2976 killed both pilots and 12 people from a nearby business when the UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11 failed to climb higher than 30 feet after an engine fell off during takeoff. Read it at WHAS11Read more at The Daily Beast.
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