It's a public acknowledgement that the agency is acutely aware of those incidents.
An airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 11, 2023. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Imagesacting chief has issued a "safety call to action" after several narrowly-averted catastrophes in the past few months have raised serious concerns throughout the aviation community.
Nolen has also ordered a deep dive into aviation safety data to check for any unreported events similar to those that have recently made headlines.Earlier this month, a FedEx 767 a Southwest 737 that was cleared for takeoff while the 767 was nearing the runway in bad weather with poor visibility at Texas' Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after an American Airlines 777 errantly crossed onto the runway ahead of it.
And in December, a United Airlines 777 entered a nearly 8,600 foot-per-minute dive shortly after takeoff from Maui's Kahului Airport, the Air Current recentlyWhat they're saying: " We are experiencing the safest period in aviation history, but we do not take that for granted," Nolen said Wednesday during Congressional testimony about"Recent events remind us that we cannot become complacent and that we must continually invest in our aviation system."
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