Originally Posted by Air&Road

They were just lucky. The FedEx pilot could see his situation evidenced by the gear coming up in an effort to gain air speed and get the heck out of there. Hard to imagine how he felt while it appeared to him to be an imminent collision. What the video did not show was what happened with the FedEx plane. With gear up he couldn’t have landed. He obviously went around, but I can only surmise that the 737 was gone, it was able to climb out of the way without much trouble. Those things will climb so fast. The SWA probably couldn’t abort without going off the end and if he had, the FedEx might not have been able to make it over him although he apparently thought he could since he called for the SWA abort and was cleaning it up in a hurry even though he was committed to the landing. The pilots get credit on this one IMHO. I think what both pilots had to work with was the massive amount of power under their throttles.