An Alaska Airlines passenger jet from Portand Oregon was given the order around 3 pm Tuesday for a “go-around” of cargo plane according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The passenger jet was beginning to land at Anchorage’s Ted Stevens International Airport when an air traffic controller instructed them to avoid an Ace Air Cargo Beechcraft 1900 prop-jet taking off for Sand Point.
The aircraft passed within a quarter-mile of each other at the same elevation. The Alaska Airlines Flight 135 landed safely.
