"Close call for two airplanes on runway at Los Angeles airport"

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Close call for two airplanes on runway at Los Angeles airport
The Associated Press


LOS ANGELES - The Federal Aviation Administration says a Southwest Airlines
jetliner at Los Angeles International Airport got within 50 yards of a
runway that another plane was preparing to land on.

FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said the pilot of a Southwest flight bound for
Sacramento on Sunday morning did not have permission from a controller to
cross over onto the runway.

As it happened, a SkyWest Airlines turboprop coming in from Bakersfield was
less than one mile from landing on the same runway. Gregor says the
controller instructed the SkyWest pilot to go around the Southwest jetliner
before touching down.

Both planes proceeded without further problems.

Gregor said Sunday morning's incident was the eighth runway incursion at the
airport since Oct. 1, all of them considered minor.

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