Near disaster on runway in Spain
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There's no bigger problem in all of aviation than runway incursions, in which a plane strays onto an active runway.
In Barcelona this weekend, an Aerolineas Argentinas plane crossed a runway directly into the path of a landing Russian airliner. It could have been catastrophic.
The captain of the jet on the ground likely missed instructions to stop short of the runway.
Meanwhile, the Houston Chronicle is reporting that two United Airlines flights almost collided with each other in midair last week.
(h/t: Hart Van Denburg)
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