Washington – Changes Urged After 5 Near Airline Collisions

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    Credit: Reuters/Lucy NicholsonWashington – Federal accident investigators are urging the adoption of new air traffic control procedures for handling aborted landings after five near collisions involving airliners.

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    The National Transportation Safety Board said in a letter Monday to the Federal Aviation Administration that current procedures should be modified so that in cases where two planes are departing at once, controllers shouldn’t also clear a plane to land at a time it would create the potential for a collision if the flight crew of the landing plane decides to abort the landing and go around for another attempt.

    NTSB said there were four such near collisions last year: two in Las Vegas, and one each in New York and Charlotte, N.C. There was also a similar near collision in Las Vegas in 2006.


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    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    10 years ago

    One would think that would be obvious–that you have to allow for the possibility of a missed approach.