US agencies probe near miss involving Southwest plane, Cessna.
Investigation Launched into Near Collision Between Southwest Airlines and Cessna Jet
By David Shepardson
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating a near collision incident that occurred in San Diego. This incident involved a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and a Cessna Citation 560X business jet, adding to a series of troubling aviation events in the United States.
The FAA’s preliminary review reveals that just before 12 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (1900 GMT) on Friday, an air traffic controller at San Diego International Airport cleared the Cessna to land on a certain runway, despite Southwest Airlines Flight 2493 already being instructed to taxi onto the same runway and await further instructions for departure.
The facility’s automated surface surveillance system alerted the controller about the developing situation, prompting the controller to direct the Cessna to discontinue landing.
According to a person briefed on the matter, the initial review indicates that the Cessna passed over the top of the Southwest airplane by about 100 feet. The FAA is dispatching a team to investigate the incident.
Southwest Airlines stated on Saturday that it is actively participating in the FAA’s review of the incident. The airline assured that their aircraft departed without any issues and the flight proceeded normally, with a safe landing in San Jose as scheduled.
The National Transportation Safety Board is currently investigating seven runway incursion events that have occurred since January, including the recent incident in San Diego.
A similar near-collision incident took place in February in Austin, Texas, when a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest Boeing 737 came within approximately 115 feet (35 meters) of each other in poor visibility conditions. The air traffic controller had cleared the FedEx plane to land and the Southwest plane to depart.
On Thursday, the NTSB cited a February incident in Boston involving a Lear 60 charter pilot who failed to obtain a takeoff clearance, resulting in a near-collision with a JetBlue flight.
The NTSB reported that the airport surface detection equipment issued an alert, and the air traffic controller instructed the JetBlue flight to go-around. The JetBlue Embraer 190 was only 30 feet (9.1 m) above the ground when it aborted the landing near the point where both runways intersected. The Boston tower informed the charter pilot that the JetBlue flight had passed about 400 feet above them.
In March, the FAA acknowledged the need to improve its air traffic control operations following several near-miss incidents. The agency held a safety summit and issued a safety alert to airlines, pilots, and others, emphasizing the importance of continued vigilance and risk mitigation.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in WashingtonEditing by Andrew Heavens, Matthew Lewis and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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