The close call in Boston is the fifth near collision of aircraft in the U.S. in recent weeks.
The pilots of a JetBlue passenger jet took evasive action while coming in to land at Boston's Logan airport Monday night to avoid hitting another plane that had crossed an intersecting runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said.raising significant safety concerns
An air traffic controller had instructed the pilot of the Learjet, operated by a private charter company,"to line up and wait on runway 9 while the JetBlue Embraer 190 landed on runway 4-Right, which intersects runway 9," the FAA said in a statement. On Feb. 22, the pilots of the Mesa aircraft abandoned a landing attempt and initiated a go-around to avoid the Sky West jet, which had been cleared by air traffic control to take off on the same runway.
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