An American Airlines plane that arrived at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington interrupted its landing and made a turn -of -the -air traffic controller to avoid getting too close to another aircraft that took off from the same track, the federal aviation administration reported (the federal aviation administration ( FAA, for its acronym in English).
The maneuver, carried out by American flight 2246, from Boston, occurred around 8:20 in the morning of Tuesday, less than two hours before another plane that tried to land at the Midway airport in Chicago was forced to Ascend again to avoid another aircraft that crossed the track. Southwest reported that the 2504 flight of Omaha, Nebraska, landed safely “after the crew made a precautionary waiting turn to avoid a possible conflict with another aircraft that entered the track,” said a spokesman for the airline in a email. “The crew followed safety procedures and the flight landed without incident.”
So far, American Airlines has not responded to a request for comments on the waiting turn at Washington National Airport.
In recent weeks there have been four major aerial disasters in North America. Among them is the February 6 accident of a passenger plane in Alask National Airport that claimed the lives of the 67 people aboard both aircraft.
A medical transport jet with a pediatric patient, his mother and four other people on board crashed on January 31 in a neighborhood of Philadelphia. That accident left seven dead, including all the people on board, in addition to 19 injured.
Twenty -one people were injured on February 17, when a Delta flight overturned and landed on its roof at Pearson in Toronto.
With agency information.
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