Southwest jet trying to land at Chicago Midway Airport nearly collides with a private plane on the runway
A Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet that entered the runway without authorization experienced a close call at Chicago Midway International Airport on Tuesday morning, the Federal Aviation ...
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‘They had not recognized it as a runway’: Details of close call at Midway emerge in NTSB report
A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report indicates bright sun and mistaken runways at Midway International ...
Sunlight partly to blame for near-collision at Midway Airport, NTSB says
A Flexjet pilot taxiing for takeoff Feb. 25 was blinded by sunlight and became disoriented, confusing one runway for another as a Southwest plane was preparing to land, investigators say. The ...
Preliminary NTSB report into Southwest near-miss finds confusion on runway at Chicago airport
The NTSB’s preliminary report found the captain of the Flexjet plane believed he was approaching runway 31L instead of 31C.
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Southwest jet trying to land at Chicago Midway Airport nearly collides with a private plane on the runway
Midway Airport has an unusual layout with four operational runways which bisect each other like a large X. “When you look at the airport map, it looks like a plaid kilt,” said former ...