The captain of a FedEx cargo plane that had been cleared for landing last month at the Austin-Bergstrom Airport was .The Boeing 767 cargo airplane was several miles from the airport 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. According to federal investigators, the pilot asked for and received confirmation that he was clear to land. But as the FedEx plane made its way through foggy conditions to the runway, the flight's first officer decided not to attempt to complete the landing given how close the Southwest fight was.
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