Report: Air Traffic Control Errors and Runway Incidents Soar
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that flying isn’t getting any safer. According to the report, air traffic controllers working at radar facilities that handle departures and approaches within 30 miles of an airport were responsible, over the past three years, for doubling the incidents in which planes flew too close together. Also, at
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Report: Air Traffic Control Errors and Runway Incidents Soar
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on October 14, 2011. Filed under