A Jumbo jet, with 286 passengers on board, had a terrifying near miss when it was forced to screech to a halt to avoid colliding with another plane that had turned into its path.
The Lufthansa Boeing 747 was accelerating along a runway as it prepared to take off at Kennedy Airport, New York, when it narrowly avoided slamming into an EgyptAir Boeing 777.
An air traffic controller screamed: 'Cancel take-off, Cancel take off plans' when he noticed the Munich-bound Jumbo on a collision course.
Close call: The Jumbo jet was racing down the runway when it had to brake to avoid hitting an EgyptAir Boeing 777.A Lufthansa Boeing 747 screeched to a halt to avoid slamming into an EgyptAir plane which had turned into its path.Panic: Controllers at New York's JFK airport screamed into their radios when they saw the two planes about to collide
The Jumbo's pilot slammed on the brakes before radioing back: 'Lufthansa 411 heavy is rejecting take-off.'
A pilot aboard another flight arriving from Los Angeles radioed the tower to say: 'That was quite a show.'
Airport controllers believe the EgyptAir jet made a wrong turn, ending up in the path of the German Lufthansa plane
A source said: 'It was close.'
The Lufthansa plane later arrived safely in Munich and no one is believed to have been injured.
A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the incident would be investigated but that it would take several days to sort out the details.
In April this year an Air France A380, Superjumbo collided with a Delta regional jet which was parked outside a terminal building.
The smaller Delta jet was sent spinning around wildly although no one was hurt in the incident, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety
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