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.

(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.

(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.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight almost took off from a taxiway — rather than a runway — at a central Florida airport on Thursday before an air traffic controller stopped the ...