What to know about the recent close calls on airport runways
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On March 1, two planes almost collided at Boston's Logan Airport, marking the sixth time a "near miss" on one of America's busy airport runways made headlines and rattled some travelers.
On Jan.18, two planes bumped into each other at JFK; on Jan. 23, at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, a United Airlines plane crossed a runway while a private Cessna plane was landing; on Feb. 3 at Newark Liberty Airport, two planes clipped wings; three days later, on Feb. 6, a FedEx cargo airplane attempting to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport had to reverse course after a second plane was cleared to depart from the same runway; and on Feb. 22 at Burbank airport in California, two planes also tried to take off on the same runway.
Even with 45,000 daily flights in the United States and one of the world's safest transportation records, airport safety experts are concerned about the number of recent runway incidents, also known as "runway incursions."
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