HOLY MOLY.
This happened on Friday at LAX in Los Angeles when a Delta plane leaving for Atlanta nearly had a disastrous collision on the ground with a charter plane carrying the Gonzaga men's basketball team.
The incident occurred around 4:20 p.m. Friday, as an Embraer E135 charter jet carrying the Gonzaga University Men's Basketball team from Spokane, Washington had just landed and was taxiing to its gate.
The plane, operated by Denver-based charter flight company Key Lime Air, was instructed to hold at a certain point so it would not cross the runway into the path of an Atlanta-bound Delta Airlines commercial flight taking off.
The "Stop! Stop! Stop!" you hear in the video was, apparently, directed at the charter plane which began taxiing onto the runway while the Delta flight was taking off.
According to some reports, the charter flight carrying the basketball team ventured out of the holding area towards the runway before they were cleared.
'When the Embraer E135 jet proceeded to cross the hold bars, air traffic controllers told the pilots to stop. The jet never crossed the runway edge line,' the spokesperson added, while also confirming the Federal agency had opened an investigation into the incident.
Apparently the pilot either misunderstood the commands from air traffic control or ignored them.
The FAA has launched an investigation because DUH.
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