American Airlines flights stop production and landing to avoid Washington state
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — An American Airlines plane arrived at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport stopped production and toured on the instructions of an air traffic controller to avoid being too far from the same aircraft The runway plane is too close to the Aviation Administration said.
The maneuver involving Boston Flight 2246 occurred around 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, less than two hours later, another plane attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport was forced to climb into the sky to prevent another plane from crossing the runway. Southwest said flight 2504 from Nebraska landed safely “after crews took precautions to avoid possible conflict with another aircraft entering the runway,” an airline spokesperson said in said in an email. “The crew followed safety procedures and there were no accidents in the flight.”
American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the Washington National Tour.
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There have been four major aviation disasters in North America over the past few weeks. These include a February 6 crash in Alaska, which killed all 10 people on board and an air crash between an Army helicopter and a U.S. airline at a U.S. National Airport on January 26 67 people on the two planes died.
On January 31, along with a pediatric patient, her mother and four other boats crashed into a medical transport jet near Philadelphia. The crash killed seven people, including all those on board, and injured 19 people.
On February 17, 21 people were injured when a flight of a delta flipped and landed on the roof of Toronto’s Pearson Airport.
