tonight to the scare on the runway the passenger flight from Nashville to Seattle a boarding takeoff to avoid a collision the pilot slamming on the brakes at about 120 M hour to avoid colliding with another plane blowing out the tires here now Ste oans Sami 176 people on an Alaska Airlines flight from Nashville to Seattle are safe tonight after their pilot had to slam on the brakes in the middle of takeoff to avoid hitting another plane crossing the same Runway 369 cancel takeoff clearance by the time airport control told the Alaska plane to stop the pilot had already saved the day a Southwest flight to Jacksonville Florida was in the way having already been cleared to cross the end of the same Runway Kyle Forester who was on the flight to Seattle said it felt like the plane was avoiding a crash about to take off and then all of a sudden just Voom started slowing down real real quick people lunging forward not drastically but uh just like you're avoiding hitting somebody in a car radar shows that his flight was hauling down the runway at about 120 mph when the pilot hit the brakes causing those brakes to overheat and then blow the tires seen here the decision to stop was an important one it needed to be made in a split second already this week two Delta planes were damaged in Atlanta after an incident on a taxi way LED to this a larger plane Bound for Japan seen here knocking off the tail of a smaller Regional Jet headed to Louisiana passengers on that Alaska Airlines flight were moved back to the terminal and put on another plane Federal authorities this evening are investigating what led to this David Steve osen saw me tonight always good to have you Steve thanks