A passenger beam has demolished a landing on Reagan National Airport in DC to prevent a collision – weeks after the deadly crash in which 65 people were killed at the same airport.
The flight of the American Airlines from Boston Logan International approached the runway at 8.20 am Tuesday when the pilot saw another plane preparing to leave the same point.
They made a quick decision to walk around to prevent another crash, as demonstrated by tracing the path of the Maryland-bound aircraft on Flightaware.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a statement about the incident.
“An air traffic controller instructed the US flight 2246 to make a walk at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA) to ensure that the separation was maintained between this plane and a previous departure from the same starting track,” the agency said.
American Airlines said that the flight landed safely and normally at DCA after it was instructed by air traffic control to complete a standard gaming to give another aircraft more time for taking off. '
“American has a no-fault go-alound policy as a passage is not an abnormal flight maneuver and can take place almost every day in the national airspace system,” added the airline's statement.
“It is a tool in the toolbox of both the pilot and the air traffic controller to maintain safe and efficient flight activities, and every claim that the canceled approach of Flight 2246 was more than that is inaccurate.”
A passenger beam has demolished a landing on Reagan National Airport in DC to prevent a collision – weeks after the deadly crash in which 65 people were killed at the same airport
Less than two hours later, another flight in Chicago was also forced to postpone the landing in almost identical scenes at Midway International Airport in the city of Illinois.
A Southwest Boeing 737-8h4 aircraft almost bumped into a private jet when it was on Tuesday at 9.50 am Chicago's Midway International Airport.
The flight left from Omaha, Nebraska. Anxiety images showed the moment it cut off his landing to avoid a flexjet plane that had gone his way.
The southwestern pilot carried out a quick run after he had been touched briefly on the runway to prevent the catastrophe.
The Flexjet plane, a Bombardier Challenger 3500, was on its way to Knoxville, Tennessee, before the almost collision.
No one was injured in the incident and the southwestern aircraft landed the safety in Chicago after the incident.
The narrow calls came only a few days after two aircraft collided in the air at the Marana Airport of Arizona last week, killing two.
The NTSB, which investigates the collision, said that the two aircraft involved were a Cessna 172S and a Lancair 360 MK II, which clashed while 'headwind of Runway 12,' one of the two runways at the small regional airport.
It comes after 67 people died after a passenger plane from the American Airlines collided last month with an army Black Hawk -Helikopter in Washington DC
The FAA said that the regional airport of Marana, which is outside of Tucson, is an uncontrolled airport, which means that it does not have operational air traffic tower.
The incident also comes after a Delta plane almost collided in December with a private jet on Los Angeles Airport.
The chartered Embraer E135 Jet wore the basketball team of the Gonzaga University Men and had just landed from Spokane, Washington.
The Jet was about to cross the runway when the controllers noticed the Delta Lan that the path was struck and the Embraer told frantically to stop.
There have been four serious aviation incidents in North America this year.
Seventy-six people died after a passenger plane in the American Airlines collided last month with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington DC.
The victims included teenage skaters who returned from a national meeting with their mothers and coaches, a student in Ohio who comes from the funeral of her grandfather, two Chinese nationals and a group of hunters who returned from a guided journey in Kansas.
