The air traffic control tower at Orlando International Airport in 2022. Southwest Airlines Flight 3278 was cleared to take off on a runway at Orlando International Airport, bound for Albany ...

The pilots of a Boeing 737 started to mistakenly take off from a taxiway at a Florida airport on Thursday ... air traffic control said from the tower, according to audio from Broadcastify.

The airport is about one-third finished with construction of a new $10 million air traffic control tower, where controllers will orchestrate takeoffs and landings from an eight-story perch.