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Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into how two city trucks were able to stray onto a runway at O'Hare International Airport, forcing two planes to abort landings.
On June 27, the Chicago Department of Aviation pickup trucks came within 3,000 feet of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 passenger jet and a Polar Air Cargo 747 plane, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said Wednesday.
Radar tapes showed the aircraft were traveling about 160 mph at altitudes of 200 to 300 feet when the pilots noticed the yellow city trucks on the runway, officials said.
The trucks swerved onto the grass and the pilots used an emergency maneuver called a go-around to avoid them, officials said.
those emergency go arounds....those folks are lucky they made it...
interesting enough...the other headline article was about how kerry-edwards have "good hair" and that will influence voters to vote for them...
some quality reporting here...did they hire Jason Blair???
On June 27, the Chicago Department of Aviation pickup trucks came within 3,000 feet of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 passenger jet and a Polar Air Cargo 747 plane, FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said Wednesday.
Radar tapes showed the aircraft were traveling about 160 mph at altitudes of 200 to 300 feet when the pilots noticed the yellow city trucks on the runway, officials said.
The trucks swerved onto the grass and the pilots used an emergency maneuver called a go-around to avoid them, officials said.
those emergency go arounds....those folks are lucky they made it...
interesting enough...the other headline article was about how kerry-edwards have "good hair" and that will influence voters to vote for them...
some quality reporting here...did they hire Jason Blair???