{"id":823,"date":"2010-07-08T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/near-collisions-raise-air-safety-concerns\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:21:04","slug":"near-collisions-raise-air-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/near-collisions-raise-air-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Near-Collisions Raise Air Safety Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Air traffic controllers are making numerous errors<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Worried by a wave of near-collisions involving airliners, the government is trying to figure out why air traffic controllers and pilots are committing a numerous amount of dangerous errors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been at least 6 incidents in which airliners came close to hitting other planes or helicopters. Incidents took place in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Burbank, California, and Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In certain cases, pilots were forced to make last minute changes in direction after cockpit alarms went off warning of a looming crash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to these warning signs, FAA is conveying a summit of employees and management, as well as other safety experts in Washington on the 17th of August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking every air traffic controller, as well as others involved in air traffic operations, to inform them before the meeting what the biggest safety problems are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em><em> Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Air traffic controllers are making numerous errors &nbsp; Worried by a wave of near-collisions involving airliners, the government is trying to figure out why air traffic controllers and pilots are committing a numerous amount of dangerous errors. &nbsp; Recently, there have been at least 6 incidents in which airliners came close to hitting other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168660,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/97168660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}