On early Saturday morning, a Fedex 767 was coming into land at the airport in Austin through thick low clouds and fog. The controller cleared the plane to land and when it was three miles out from landing, they then told the Southwest flight to take off from the same runway. The two planes got within a few hundred feet of killing everyone onboard both planes. It was only the careful flying by the Fedex crew that saved everyone. Here's a video of the incident with the actual radio traffic between the tower and the two planes. Article. Second more detailed video.

Here's where it gets interesting. Apparently this particular controller is known to be incompetent but files EEO complaints and gets shuffled around instead of being fired. Over on the ATC subreddit, one controller had this to say:

This is the problem right here. You have a controller who, according to everyone who has worked with him from the last facility where he washed out and now AUS, say has no business being a controller and they can't fire him because he files EEO complaints habitually. And yet you have people trying to push another agenda entirely with the 6 day work weeks and fatigue, which this event has nothing to do with. Just call it what it is. A shitty controller who has no business being a controller just tried to kill a lot of people, and the FAA and NATCA will do NOTHING about it.

Source. For those who don't know, EEO complaints are a way for employees to complain that they are being discriminated against under federal law. So this guy, who sounds like he's black judging from his voice, uses the shield of federal discrimination laws to avoid being fired for incompetence. And true to form, the federal government just shuffles him off to a different airport to be some else's problem.