Investigators are probing the narrowly avoided collision between two airliners at New York’s JFK airport and are already conducting interviews, according to the National Transportation Safety Board
Investigators are probing the narrowly avoided catastrophic collision between two airliners at New York’s JFK airport Friday evening and are already conducting interviews, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The incident involved an American Airlines 777 that improperly crossed an active runway at the busy airport.
spokeswoman Sarah Sulick told CNN interviews related to the investigation are ongoing, a detail that has not yet been reported elsewhere. She provided no further details. American\n \n spokesman Derek Walls said the airline is “conducting a full internal review and cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board in their investigation.
managing director and a CNN aviation analyst. Those recordings would also reveal if the American pilots heard the instructions completely from the air traffic controllers and if so, how they apparently became confused. But that audio may not be available in at least one cockpit, Goelz warned. Because the American Airlines flight continued on to London that evening, it is unclear if investigators had access to the recordings before they were overwritten.
nor any of the parties CNN has contacted have commented on the voice recorder. Push to improve technology The has made several recommendations to improve voice recorders, including that the recording length be extended to 25 hours, something that would have preserved the cockpit chatter from the American crew even if it wasn’t retrieved until the flight landed in London. In a 2018 report, the board said “recent safety investigations have been hampered because relevant portions of the recordings were overwritten.
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