Man shocked after Saskatoon-bound flight avoids hitting another plane

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Man shocked after Saskatoon-bound flight avoids hitting another plane

Man shocked after Saskatoon-bound flight avoids hitting another plane

Desmond Short estimates he has flown more than 100 times in the last decade but his last flight left him in shock.

Short was flying back to Saskatoon from Winnipeg on a WestJet Encore flight Friday evening and believes disaster was narrowly avoided.

"I watched and the landing gear went down, which means we're about three or four minutes from landing and everything was going fine," he said, recounting the moments before the plane was due to land.

"Just as I figured we were going to touch down, the plane accelerated and the pilot pulled us out of the landing."

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Short remembered the pilot saying there could be gusts of wind, so he figured the sudden bailout was because of that. Then, the pilot's voice rang out over the intercom.

According to Short he said something like: "Sorry about that folks, we had to pull out. A training aircraft pulled right out onto the runway."

After hearing that, Short said he was in shock.

"It didn't really hit me until the next day that I almost died," he said.

He gave kudos to the pilots for handling the situation in a way he deemed very professional. Instead, he blames the plane on the runway.

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