Yet Another Nearly Catastrophic Air Collision Narrowly Averted, According to Report
A collision was narrowly averted at a U.S. airport in California after a plane was forced to abort its landing because air traffic control cleared another plane for take-off, officials state.
Mesa Airlines Flight 5826 was preparing to land at the Hollywood Burbank Airport on the evening of Feb. 22 when an air traffic controller cleared SkyWest Airlines Embraer E175 to take off from the same runway, NBC News reported. Although the Mesa Airlines flight was only 1.3 miles away, the pilot was able to discontinue the landing procedure and climb out as the SkyWest flight took off from the runway, the outlet added.
A Mesa Airlines flight crew was forced to abruptly halt a landing at California's Hollywood Burbank Airport after an air traffic controller cleared a plane to depart ahead of them, according to preliminary information obtained by @NBCNews. https://t.co/JTNorW25hM
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 24, 2023
This latest snafu is just another in a number of recent near-miss incidents that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to launch a “call to action” earlier in February. (Read more from “Yet Another Nearly Catastrophic Air Collision Narrowly Averted, According to Report” HERE)
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