Federal investigators say an air traffic controller cleared one plane to land and another to take off from the same runway in Florida last month.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that the American and Air Canada Rouge planes were separated by six-tenths of a mile — about 3,000 feet — at their closest point. That is much farther apart than planes inIn its preliminary report, the safety board did not state a cause for the Feb. 16 incident, but it said it formed a group to investigate air traffic controller actions.
said it asked industry to find technology to help air traffic controllers track equipment on the ground.six recent events involving conflicting runway use. The board did not start any similar investigations in 2022 and only two in 2021, according to a spokesman.
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