Sec. Buttigieg says the U.S. continues to enjoy 'the safest and most complex' air travel system in the world, but there are indications that the system is under strain.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that the country's air system was skirting disaster in the wake of multiple near-miss aviation incidents in the past year.
Buttigieg was joined by Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, who cited six serious runway incursions since January, including an incident at JFK Airport in New York City involving an American Airlines flight narrowly avoiding an outbound Delta Air Lines flight, and a landing FedEx Cargo plane coming within 100 feet of a departing Southwest Airlines flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas.
And it is also looking into two episodes in Hawaiian airspace — one involving severe turbulence aboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight that injured 25 people, and another that saw a United Airlines flight plunge within several hundred feet of the Pacific Ocean. She also hit out at long-outstanding recommendations, including a 23-year-old request for technology that would help avoid runway collisions, that have yet to be implemented.
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