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An airport vehicle exited the runway in Portland before Southwest Flight 4805 began its takeoff roll and departed around 5:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday, according to the FAA.
Airport employees in Portland, Maine, were forced to clear out of the way when a Southwest Airlines jet on the morning of June 25 took off from a closed runway, according to air traffic control ...
Investigators said Thursday that a failed radio transmission and a distracted air traffic controller led to a close call between a Southwest Airlines jet and a smaller plane waiting to take off ...
An air traffic's controller's faulty assumption that a Southwest Airlines jetliner would take off from a Texas airport before a landing FedEx plane reached the runway caused the planes to come ...
The captain of the FedEx plane flying into Austin said he was “irritated” and “perplexed” when the controller cleared Southwest to take off from runway 18-left, the one he was approaching.
[5] [6] [7] The aircraft slid 2,175 feet (663 m) on its nose along the runway, arresting off to the right of the runway pavement. [6] The plane came to a stop halfway down the runway [8] after skidding on its nose in a sea of sparks. [9] As a result of the crash, the two-runway airport was closed until its rescue assets were available again.
Flight 1455 departed McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada, at 1650, more than 2 hours behind schedule due to inclement weather in the area.At 18:04:02, when the aircraft was 19 nautical miles (22 mi; 35 km) north of the BUR outer marker, the SoCal approach controller instructed the aircraft to maintain 230 knots (260 mph; 430 km/h) or greater until further notice.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air-traffic controllers cleared an Alaska Airlines jet last month to take off at Tennessee's Nashville International Airport on the same runway where a Southwest Airlines ...