A FedEx cargo airplane attempting to land evdeN EVe NakLiyAt<\/a> at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Saturday morning was seconds from disaster with the flight crew suddenly forced to pull up and abort their landing after a Southwest Airlines plane was also cleared to takeoff from the same runway.<\/p>\n The two planes appeared to\u00a0come within 75 vertical feet of one another.<\/p>\n The Boeing 767 cargo airplane was several miles from the airport<\/a> when it was cleared to land, according to the FAA but just before it was about to touch down an air traffic controller also gave the go-ahead for the Southwest Boeing 737 to take off on the exact same stretch of tarmac.<\/p>\n ‘Shortly before the FedEx aircraft was due to land, eVDEN eVe nakLiYat<\/a> the controller cleared Southwest Flight 708 to depart from the same runway,’ the Federal Aviation<\/a> Administration said in a statement.<\/p>\n ‘The pilot of the FedEx airplane discontinued the landing and EVdEn EvE NAKLiyaT<\/a> initiated a climb out.’<\/p>\n