Two airliners aborted their landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across their runways.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two airliners aborted landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet taxiing across runways on which the other planes had been cleared to land.
"The FAA looked into the events and determined the appropriate steps were taken to ensure safe operations," the agency said.The incident comes after a half-dozen close calls in recent months that are being investigated by safety officials. Those include one in February in which a FedEx plane flew about 100 feet over the top of a Southwest jet in Austin, Texas, after an air traffic controller cleared both planes to use the same runway.
Shortly after that, the crew of an incoming Alaska Airlines plane saw the same Southwest jet crossing a second, parallel runway, and the pilots aborted their landing too.The air traffic controller told the crew of the Southwest jet,"You shouldn't be on the runway," according to a recording captured by LiveATC.com. When one of the pilots tried to explain, the controller cut him off, saying,"I don't need an argument.".
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