The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a Mesa Airlines flight landing into the Burbank airport nearly collided with a SkyWest plane taking off from the same runway.
Another close call between commercial airliners at a major US airport is under federal investigation.The National Transportation Safety Board announced Friday that it is investigating a Wednesday evening runway incursion at Bob Hope Burbank Airport.
LiveATC.net recordings from the time of the incident chronicle confusion over whether the SkyWest flight was off the runway. The incident is the fourth runway incursion involving commercial airliners under investigation by the NTSB since the start of this year, including incidents at Honolulu, Austin and New York's JFK airport.
"Meanwhile, the SkyWest aircraft continued with its departure, which prompted an automated alert to sound on the flight deck of the Mesa aircraft," the FAA said. The controller instructed the Mesa crew to turn to a course that took it away from the other aircraft."
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