Audio of the incident posted online includes an air traffic controller issuing urgent instructions to the crew of an Alaska Airlines flight, telling them to turn away from a nearby SkyWest flight.
"While attempting to land at Portland International Airport, the pilot of Alaska Airlines Flight 1299 initiated a go-around due to wind and turned towards SkyWest Airlines Flight 3978, which had just departed," the FAA said in a statement. "An air traffic controller instructed the Alaska Airlines pilot to turn away from the SkyWest aircraft.
Flight tracking site FlightAware shows the Alaska flight, which originally departed from John Wayne Airport in California, ultimately diverted to Roberts Field in Redmond, Oregon. The SkyWest flight landed in Seattle as planned. In March, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called on industry officials to help address the root causes of the problem. "It would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a certain control tower where there were a lot of issues," Buttigieg told CNN. "But instead, what we're finding is that pilots, ground crews and controllers alike seem to be experiencing this uptick. Some have described it as a kind of rust.
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