Harrowing footage shows Gonzaga team plane, Delta jet near-miss on LAX runway

Harrowing footage captured the moment a Delta flight nearly crashed into the Gonzaga University basketball team plane on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.

“Stop, stop, stop!” an air-traffic controller can be heard yelling at the plane carrying the men’s team as it prepares to cross a runway at LAX around 4:30 p.m. Friday, according to footage of the incident posted online.

The rolling jet —  Key Lime Air Flight 563 — comes to a sudden stop, just as Delta Flight 471 comes barreling up the runway at full speed and lifts off.

LAX plane

Head coach Mark Few of the Gonzaga Bulldogs leaves the court after being defeated by the UCLA Bruins at Intuit Dome on December 28, 2024 in Inglewood, California.

“Woo! Woo! Wow,” a plane-spotter who was filming the runway and uploaded the video to Airline Videos on YouTube could be heard exclaiming just after the near-miss.

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