Before the fatal airplane collision on Wednesday nights near the Ronal Dragan National Airport, there were at least 10 close calls at Washington Airport over the past three years, recorded in the government recorded by the New York Times. Ta.
One of the most surprising things in April last year was when the Southwest Airlines flight was instructed to cross the same runway if the Jet Blue Airways airplane was cleared to take off by the controller. On the jet -blue airplane, the controller shouted at the pilot and shouted, and suddenly stopped taking off. The Jet came from the Southwest Aircraft within 312 feet, according to the Southwest Aircraft's safety report and records of the Federal Aviation Bureau reviewed by the Times. According to the safety report, the controller that cleared the southwest was not adjusted as a controller that instructed a jet blue plane.
According to another preliminary safety report, the following month, American Airlines' jets were exempted from being permitted to land on the runway where private airplanes intersected. When the US jet began to speed up the runway, the controller suddenly stopped taking off. The jet left the runway, but the private airplane had already landed by the time he received instructions from the controller to stop landing. The controller did not warn the pilot of either aircraft about other aircraft. The two rapid airplanes are within about 1,600 feet for each other.
These two incidents are described in the public database that the aviation authorities are called Runway incursions. The database, maintained by the FAA, was not classified as the seriousness of the 2024 incident in Reagan National as a collision.
A close call in Reagan National was a part of low safety patterns in the sky and runways nationwide. In the 2023 New York Times survey series, it was found that a close call involved in commercial airlines occurred many times weekly. Nearmiss was often done at major airports or nearby, and was the result of an error by a pilot or air control officer.
For example, in 2023, the Times obtained a report in 2023. This indicated that the FAA, which ended on September 30, 2023, was 65 % higher than the previous year, with 503 air traffic control classified in advance as “important”. 。 During that period, air traffic increased by about 4 %.
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FAA usually makes a statement about the public's attention. Although the agency also maintains the public database of the invasion of the runway, there are many delays before the incident appears.
Public databases provide only some details about the invasion of the runway. For example, the entry indicates that there was an incident on November 6 in Reagan National, a regional jet of a runway 19 and an Airbus A319. For the serious E of having “insufficient or inconsistent evidence”, the FAA was classified into C because the FAA had enough time or distance to avoid collisions.
The airline pilot has previously written concerns about helicopters around Reagan National. Another database on the aeronautical safety problem that NASA has maintained in detail has detailed the two amazing cases, including a passenger jet that almost collides with a helicopter near the airport. The database contains a confidential anonymized safety report submitted to a pilot, an air controller, and other aviation professionals.
In April 2024, he reported that the airline captain was approaching the helicopter while approaching Reagan National. As the jet was configured to land, the pilot warned that a helicopter was about 300 feet under an airplane and was slowly climbing. Before landing safely, the pilot emptied an airplane from a potential collision.
However, the captain reported that the jet pilot had never been warned by an air traffic controller about the helicopter, and the pilot could not see it, so he did not notice it. did.
The safety report included predictive warnings. A safe distance is placed between an airplane landing on Reagan and the helicopter flying up and down on the Potmax River near the airport.
A similar incident occurred in October 2022, and reported that the captain of the airline had almost collided with a helicopter lifted from a nearby hospital. Jet collision prevention technology warned pilots for potential disasters, sounded cockpit alarms, and moved the plane to a high altitude. The captain estimated that the plane had arrived within 300 feet of the helicopter.
