(CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration said it was launching an investigation into how a commercial airliner taxied past a flight taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday night.
The crew of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 aborted their takeoff, eventually coming to rest within 1,000 feet of the American Airlines Boeing 777 on the ground, the FAA said. No one was injured in the incident, which happened around 8:45 p.m. Friday.
Air traffic controllers had “noticed another aircraft crossing the runway in front of the departing airliner,” the FAA said in a statement. “According to a preliminary analysis, Delta Air Lines Flight 1943 stopped its takeoff roll at approximately 1,000 feet before reaching the point where American Airlines Flight 106, a Boeing 777, had crossed from a taxiway. adjacent.”
According to Delta, his flight – a 737-900 to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – had 145 customers and six crew members on board.
The flight returned to the gate and was unable to depart due to staffing issues, Delta said. The flight finally departed on Saturday morning and Delta said it was offering customers a hotel stay.
“The safety of our customers and our crew is always Delta’s number one priority,” Delta said in a statement to CNN, adding that it would cooperate with the National Transportation Safety Board in any analysis.
“Delta will work with the NTSB and assist in conducting a full review of Flight 1943 on January 13 regarding an aborted takeoff procedure at New York-JFK. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and delay to their travels. .”
The NTSB has not yet announced that it is investigating the incident.
American Airlines had no comment, referring all questions to the FAA. FlightAware data shows American Airlines Flight 106 was a London Heathrow-bound flight that departed on time Friday night from JFK and arrived in London on time Saturday morning.