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An American Airlines flight bound for Boston was forced to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday morning to avoid possibly hitting another plane.

An American Airlines flight bound for Boston was forced to abort takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday morning to avoid another plane that was landing.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it’s investigating what happened. It’s the second such incident at the Washington, DC, airport in the last six weeks.

“An air traffic controller cancelled the takeoff clearance for American Airlines Flight 2134 because another aircraft was cleared to land on an intersecting runway,” the FAA said in a statement about Wednesday’s scare.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    222·
    6 months ago

    News is reporting more now because boeing has been in the news.

    Trains didn’t start spontaneously derailing after east palestine, it’s just the news started reporting on stories they would have previosly ignored. Same is happening with aviation.

    • stepintomydojo
      81·
      6 months ago

      Trains must have stopped derailing, all we hear about now is planes. /s

      (Proving the point about the news and its tendency to focus on the currently popular issue)

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      That’s a thought. Media tends to do “cycles”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark

      The Summer of the Shark refers to the coverage of shark attacks by American news media in the summer of 2001. The sensationalist coverage of shark attacks began in early July following the Fourth of July weekend shark attack on 8-year-old Jessie Arbogast, and continued almost unabated—despite no evidence for an actual increase in attacks—until the September 11 terrorist attacks shifted the media’s attention away from beaches. The Summer of the Shark has since been remembered as an example of tabloid television perpetuating a story with no real merit beyond its ability to draw ratings.