The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update on its investigation of a near miss between two jets at JFK Airport in 2023.
Sam Sweeney and Ivan PereiraInterruptions, distractions and multitasking led to a near-collision between an American Airlines flight and a Delta flight moving at 120 MPH down a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.provided more details about what led to the incident and how a specialized detection system prevented a worse outcome.
"The other two flight crewmembers didn't catch the captain's error because they were both engaged in tasks that diverted their visual attention from outside the airplane," the agency said in a statement. Five seconds after the alerts were issued, the controller canceled the Delta plane's takeoff clearance, which prompted its pilot to decelerate as the American jet crossed in front of it, according to the NTSB.
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