Two planes have close call at Florida airport, NTSB says
CBSN
A passenger jet last month was cleared by air traffic controllers to land on the same runway of a Sarasota, Florida, airport that a second plane had also been cleared to take off from, officials said Thursday, detailing another in a string of similar close calls at U.S. airports this year.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, at about 9 p.m. EST on Feb. 16, Air Canada Rouge Flight No. 1633 bound for Toronto, Canada, was cleared to take off from the airport's Runway 14. However, American Airlines Flight No. 2172 from Charlotte, North Carolina, had been also cleared to land on the same runway.
The pilots of the American Airlines flight eventually aborted their landing, the NTSB said in a preliminary report. The closest the two planes got to each other was within six-tenths of a mile, the NTSB said.
