A Delta jet was roughly 300ft (90 meters) from an American Airlines plane during a close call at Boston\u2019s airport that forced the Delta aircraft to abort a weekend landing attempt, an aviation expert said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident between two commercial flights that happened Saturday at Boston Logan international airport.<\/p>\n
Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer at Boeing, estimated the distance between the two jetliners using Flightradar24, a website that tracks flights. Curtis now co-produces a podcast about flight safety issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a significant incident,\u201d Curtis said, adding that it was particularly concerning because it involved two professional airline crews.<\/p>\n
He said federal aviation officials have been concerned about such runway incursions for a while and will scrutinize Saturday\u2019s close call.<\/p>\n
Near-misses and runway incursions at US airports will be the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The Senate commerce\u202fsubcommittee\u202fon\u202faviation, space,\u202fand innovation will\u202fseek ways to strengthen safety across the national airspace system.<\/p>\n
The Delta flight from Dallas had to execute a go-around, or aborted landing, to avoid the American plane departing from an intersecting runway, according to the FAA and flight logs.<\/p>\n
The crew of Delta flight 2351 coordinated with air traffic control to perform the go-around, an airline spokesperson said. The plane, which had 129 passengers and six crew members on board, landed safely and deplaned normally, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Go-arounds are safe, routine procedures performed at the discretion of the pilot or air traffic controllers, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta jet was roughly 300ft (90 meters) from an American Airlines plane during a close call at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-752653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}