On Jan. 13, an American Airlines plane came within a thousand feet of striking a Delta flight headed for the Dominican Republic on the runway. Five days later, a JetBlue plane struck the tail of another parked plane as it was pushing back from the gate.
of another parked plane as it was pushing back from the gate. No passengers in either incident were injured.
And the NTSB has just initiated an investigation. But when you listen to the air traffic control transcripts and look at where they were in respect to each other, it appears the American 777 crew took a wrong turn when maneuvering with a bunch of multiple intersections where active runways cross each other.
But again, these are very, very few events that have occurred over the past few years. There's a lot of safety checks. In fact, the FAA should be lauded for bringing down the number of incursions over the past few years. A lot of technology is being used, pilots are supposed to receive training to be able to fully understand runway signage and lights that tell them to stop before a runway.
The FAA and the airlines take all this data and determine if there's any trends at certain airports or with certain airlines at certain times of the day or night and certain weather. The Federal Aviation Administration says that they're investigating the first incident. Do you remember a time that something like this happened at JFK or maybe at another airport?
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