{"id":125866,"date":"2024-11-14T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125866"},"modified":"2024-11-14T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:58:41","slug":"air-traffic-control-mistake-caused-near-collision-at-us-airport-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125866","title":{"rendered":"Air traffic control mistake caused near-collision at US airport | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiaGy1VypPI?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the US has said that a mistake by an air traffic controller caused a near-collision in Texas last year.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was launched after a FedEx plane and a Southwest Airlines jet came within about 170 feet (52 m) of each other, before the FedEx Boeing 767 was forced to fly over the Southwest 737-700 to avoid a crash in poor visibility conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations determined that an air traffic controller had cleared both planes to use the same runway, having expected the Southwest plane &#8211; which had 123 passengers onboard &#8211; would have already departed before the FedEx plane landed, given his &#8220;expectation bias&#8221; that Southwest planes were quick to depart.<\/p>\n<p>The incident \u2013 one of at least half a dozen near-miss incidents in the US last year &#8211;  raised concerns about aviation safety and the strain on understaffed air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Aviation #AirTravel #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HiaGy1VypPI\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the US has said that a mistake by an air traffic controller caused a near-collision in Texas last year. An investigation was launched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125866\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}