Amid Near-Collision, City Fast-Tracks Safety Tech at Airport
Meanwhile Reps. Doggett and Casar urge federal action
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Meanwhile Reps. Doggett and Casar urge federal action
On the afternoon of July 2, a Southwest Airlines pilot had to abort a landing at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. A Delta Air Lines 737 was preparing to take off on the same runway. The sudden maneuver avoided a possible collision by seconds. Nine days later, in San Francisco, an American Airlines jet was accelerating down the runway at more than 160 mph when it narrowly missed a Frontier Airlines plane whose nose had almost jutted into its path. Moments later, the same thing h
While there have been no major US plane crashes in more than a decade, potentially dangerous incidents are occurring far more frequently than almost anyone realizes.
Near misses involving U.S. commercial airlines happen on average multiple times a week, a New York Times investigation found.