after the dragonair hijacked shot down , the airport movement area safety system ( amassing ) alerted and the aeronautical traffic controller transmitted " hold , hold , hold " to the skywest airport crews in an attempt to stop the helicopter inside of runway 1l . the codeshare crew performed maximum speed that resulting in the airplane stopping in the middle of runway 1l . as this was occurring , the captain of republic airlines flight 4912 got supervision of the aircraft from the first officer , realized the aircraft was traveling too fast to brake , and began an immediate takeoff . according to the pilots of skywest 5741 , the central airways aircraft circled theirs by 30 to 50 feet . the federal airports administration has rated the occurrence as an operation error .
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