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Details of a midair near-collision that put a departing United Airlines Boeing 777 barely a few hundred feet from a single-engine propeller aircraft near San Francisco International Airport last year reveal that local controllers initially documented the incident but didn't consider it an error.
Report Details Midair Close Call Andy Pasztor 2011
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An air-traffic-controller error earlier this month resulted in a midair near-collision between two regional jets over a runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, forcing one plane to make an emergency maneuver during takeoff, according to federal investigators.
Controller Error Blamed for Midair Near Miss Andy Pasztor 2011
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The National Transportation Safety Board said a series of slip-ups by pilots and air-traffic controllers twice put a US Airways Group Inc. jet and a Boeing 747 cargo plane on a near-collision course over Alaska last year.
Mistakes Led Planes Toward Near-Collision Andy Pasztor 2011
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The report, which made 18 recommendations to improve the provision of air-experience flights (AEFs) used to introduce cadets to flying, also noted there had been a near-collision between a training plane and a Puma helicopter over RAF Benson in 2006.
RAF criticised over cadet's death in training crash Jamie Doward 2010
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The crew of a United flight filed a near-collision report in March after its avoidance system activated on takeoff from San Francisco and the jet skimmed below a small plane.
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The crew of a United flight filed a near-collision report in March after its avoidance system activated on takeoff from San Francisco and the jet skimmed below a small plane.
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-- Metro's failure to widely use a track circuit test instituted after a 2005 near-collision in a tunnel near Rosslyn Station.
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Two earlier incidents -- a near-collision at Rosslyn Station in 2005 and one at Potomac Avenue in March 2009 -- also involved failures of the overall train protection system, which is designed to keep trains apart.
Metro faces criticism over notification of Wheaton emergency incident 2010
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The most common is meant to cool tempers after a near-collision.
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The crew of a United flight filed a near-collision report in March after its avoidance system activated on takeoff from San Francisco and the jet skimmed below a small plane.
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