The number of runway incursions in 2022, including general and commercial aircraft, is up from the 1,397 incursions reported in 2012 and 987 reported in 2002
, data from the Federal Aviation Administration shows the number of the most serious close calls at U.S. airports has actually been decreasing even as overall incidents have risen.
But the most serious incursions in which a collision was "narrowly avoided" or in which "there is significant potential for a collision" have decreased over the past 20 years, according to the FAA. "Aviation safety has to be premised on the idea that we don't want any negatives at all," ABC News contributor and former commercial pilot John Nance said in an interview. "We can't accept a small number per year and just say, 'Well, that's the cost of doing business.' We have to believe we can get to 0 and I think this is one of those areas where we have to redouble our efforts.
The tech was not in place at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, where earlier this month a close call occurred after a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest Airlines flight came within 100 feet of each other, the FAA has said.
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