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Southwest Airlines plane aborts landing after close call at Chicago airport

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A Southwest Airlines plane narrowly avoided a collision with a private business jet at Chicago 's Midway Airport on Tuesday morning .

Video shows Southwest flight 2504 from Omaha coming in for a landing at the airport, then quickly aborting to avoid a potential collision with the business jet that was taxiing across the runway.

The business jet was a FlexJet Bombardier Challenger bound for Knoxville , Tennessee .

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English

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