It appeared both planes were given instructions by different air traffic controllers that could have put them on a collision course, according to NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy.
between two planes last week at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia, the latest in a string of similar such incidents on U.S. airport runways this year.
Homendy told CBS News that it appeared both planes were given instructions by different air traffic controllers that could have put them on a collision course, before the pilots of United Flight No. 2003 were told to abort their take off. But a preliminary review from the FAA offered a slightly different account than that of the NTSB. The FAA, in a statement obtained by CBS News, found that the Republic flight had been cleared to cross a different runway, but instead turned on the wrong taxiway.
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