Georgia Coach Mark Fox's Plane Almost Crashed Into Another Plane

Georgia men’s basketball coach Mark Fox was on a Delta flight that had to “come to a screeching halt” on the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday as it nearly collided with another plane. Charlotte Observer reporter Scott Fowler was also on the flight. He wrote...

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Still, it was a close call that caused a mild panic among the passengers and required our plane to return to the gate in Atlanta to allow the brakes to “cool off” and for a maintenance check, the pilot said.

The screeching those brakes made will haunt me for awhile. I have flown hundreds of times, but I have never heard anything quite like that.

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(YardBarker)