The collision appears to have happened under circumstances similar to many of the near misses that have alarmed aviation officials this year.
A private jet took off from a Houston airport without permission Tuesday, colliding in midair with another jet that was coming in to land, according to the Federal Aviation Administration., but the collision appears to have happened under circumstances similar to the near misses at airports that have alarmed aviation officials this year. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of six investigators to determine what happened.
“You guys cleared somebody to take off or land and we hit them on a departure,” the Hawker pilot said.The Hawker was able to take off and circle back around to land at the airport. Controllers can be heard scrambling to redirect other traffic and to send a team onto the airfield to determine what happened.
The airport, which also is used by major airlines, was closed for hours Tuesday afternoon and air traffic controllers had to divert several approaching flights to nearby George Bush Intercontinental Airport.The collision happened hours before the Senate . One of his early priorities will be to bolster safety after a string of near misses at airports throughout the year, a number of them involving airliners.The FAA and the NTSB both held summits earlier this year to address the problem. Data on one kind of close call, known as a runway incursion, suggested the rate of the most serious incidents had started to improve. But the near misses have continued.
In many cases, the incidents appear to have stemmed from miscommunications or misunderstandings between pilots and air traffic controllers. Officials say they are a sign of the strain that the aviation system is under as traffic has rapidly rebounded from pandemic lows.
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