Delta Air Lines Flight 2315
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Delta Air Lines Flight 2315 was a flight from Hartford, Connecticut to Tampa, Florida. The flight is notable because United Airlines Flight 175, the second jet to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, nearly collided in midair with the flight just minutes before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
United 175 flew within about 200 feet of Delta 2315, as air traffic controller Dave Bottiglia frantically tried to tell the Delta pilot to take evasive action.
Dave Bottiglia was the first person in the control center to realize that United Airlines Flight 175 was hijacked when he gave directions for a turn. Flight 175 didn't respond, it instead accelerated and headed toward Delta Air Lines Flight 2315. When the plane passed by the control center added Flight 175 on the list of hijacked planes.
