An air traffic controller instructed a Southwest Airlines jet to abort its takeoff on Thursday after it began to accelerate on a taxiway ... where the plane was meant to take off.

A Southwest Airlines flight had a near miss at a Florida airport after it almost took off from a taxiway rather than a runway. Southwest Flight 3278 which was en route to Albany, New York ...

(AP) — A Southwest ... a taxiway after the crew mistook the surface for the nearby runway, officials said. But air traffic controllers canceled the clearance before the plane could take off.

(AP) — A Southwest ... a taxiway after the crew mistook the surface for the nearby runway, officials said. But air traffic controllers canceled the clearance before the plane could take off.

A Southwest plane inadvertently started to take off from a taxiway instead of ... The event is reminiscent of an Air Canada flight that nearly landed on a taxiway in San Francisco in 2017.

An air traffic controller at Florida airport cancelled the takeoff clearance for Southwest Flight 3278 after the aircraft began its takeoff roll on a taxiway that runs parallel to the runway ...