Accidents
NTSB Investigating Another Bizjet/Airliner Close Call
Citation and Boeing 737 come within 100 feet
San Diego International Airport (Photo:Wikimedia Commons/By Joe Mabel, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38881483)
ATC issued go-around instructors to a Citation XLS while a Southwest Airlines B737 was awaiting takeoff but the aircraft came within 100 feet of each other at San Diego International Airport (Photo:Wikimedia Commons/By Joe Mabel, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38881483).

The NTSB has started investigating another close call between an airliner and business jet that occurred on Friday at San Diego International Airport in California. The incident involved a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and a Cessna Citation XLS during daytime VMC.

Preliminary information indicates that San Diego tower cleared the 737 to line up and wait on Runway 27 also advising that the Citation traffic was on a five mile final and cleared to land. About two minutes later, with the airliner still on the runway but not cleared for takeoff, the Citation crew radioed the tower, asking if they were still cleared to land.

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