An American Airlines flight from Boston had to interrupt its landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington to avoid another aircraft that took off. A similar incident was recorded hours later in Chicago.
An American Airlines plane that arrived at the 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 (FAA) reported.
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 rise 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 an email.
“The crew followed the 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 Alaskain which the ten people died on board, and Collision in the air of January 26 between an army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at the 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 He crashed on January 31 in a neighborhood in 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.