Lufthansa LH463’s 747 Stopped From Full Taxi Speed at Miami as an American 787 Turned Into Its Path

Lufthansa flight LH463, a Boeing 747-8 taxiing out for Frankfurt, had to brake to a full stop at Miami International Airport on Thursday, November 5, 2026, when an American Airlines jet turned into its path. The Lufthansa pilot told Miami Ground it was “very close to an accident in the making.”

The American aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 that had just arrived from Philadelphia as AA1155, according to aeroTelegraph, which reported the event on November 7 and gave the 747’s registration as D-ABYT. There was no collision, and both crews continued.

What the ground frequency recorded

The exchange was posted on November 6 by the YouTube channel Amazing Aviation, which paired the Miami Ground audio with an animated reconstruction. AeroCorner transcribed the audio; the aircraft positions in the animation are illustrative, not tracking data.

On the recording, the Lufthansa crew reports that they had to make a full stop out of full taxi speed because “the American is turning in our way.” The ground controller replies that the American jet was supposed to hold short of taxiway Yankee and had “made every wrong turn possible already.”

The Lufthansa pilot says the crew will file an incident report. When the controller offers a phone number for the facility, the pilot declines and repeats that they will just file the report, before the 747 continues its taxi.

The controller adds that the American crew had been told to hold short of Yankee several times and had already made a wrong turn while still on the runway, and apologizes to the Lufthansa crew. The recording does not name the American flight; that identification comes from aeroTelegraph.

How the timing lines up

Flight-tracking data from FlightAware shows LH463 leaving gate J17 at Miami International at 5:00 p.m. EST and taking off at 5:33 p.m., a 33-minute taxi. It reached Frankfurt the next morning.

The same source shows AA1155, a 787-8, landing in Miami at 5:15 p.m. and reaching its gate at 5:25 p.m. That puts the American jet on the taxiways while the Lufthansa 747-8 was still on its way to the runway.

AeroCorner found no public statement from American Airlines, Lufthansa or the FAA at the time of writing. Why the 787 crew missed the hold point is not known.

Why a missed hold point matters on the ground

A “hold short” instruction is a stop line on the taxi route: the crew reads it back and must stop before the named taxiway or runway until the controller clears them on. A ground controller plans each taxi route around the others, so a jet that rolls past its limit can end up in the path of traffic the controller has already cleared through.

Pilots find those limits by the signs and painted lines covered in our guide to airport taxiway markings. At a big, busy airport like Miami, a single wrong turn can put a crew on a route the controller did not plan for.

The FAA keeps two buckets for events like this. A runway incursion requires an aircraft, vehicle or person wrongly on a runway’s protected area. Anything unauthorized elsewhere on the movement area, taxiways included, is a surface incident.

The agency also sorts events by who caused them. A pilot deviation is a pilot’s action that breaks a Federal Aviation Regulation, such as crossing a runway without a clearance. Whether the FAA has logged the Miami event, and how, has not been made public.

Etihad EY7 at Boston, which crossed a runway without clearance in October, fits the FAA’s own example. The Miami event, as the controller described it, stayed on the taxiways, but it began the same way: an instruction to stop that the crew did not follow.