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Investigators are probing a 3rd industrial aircraft mishap inside a month … the newest was Friday night time at LAX … and a number of individuals had been damage.
An American Airlines industrial aircraft collided with a passenger bus on the LAX tarmac, leaving 5 individuals injured.
The empty jet was being towed from a gate to a parking space when it crashed into the shuttle bus, smashing into the entrance finish and damaging the home windows.
Four individuals had been taken to an area hospital and handled for non-life-threatening accidents. The fifth individual was handled on the scene and launched.
Authorities are actually investigating the reason for the collision, which comes on the heels of final month’s shut name at JFK Airport in NYC … and an identical incident final Tuesday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas.
1/13/23
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In the JFK incident, an American Airlines aircraft crossed a runway with out getting clearance from air visitors management, which prevented a Delta Air Lines flight from taking off, officers stated.
Luckily, the 2 planes did not make contact, however they got here inside 1400 ft of each other. And fortunately, nobody was injured.
The NTSB is investigating an incident involving a Southwest 737 and FedEx 767 that occurred in the present day in Austin. Initial ADS-B information present the touchdown 767 overflying the departing 737. We are processing granular information now. https://t.co/twHCydm5ixhttps://t.co/wZ3Z0xKJem pic.twitter.com/nkKVjshXmf
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 5, 2023
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In the Austin incident, a Southwest passenger jet got here inside 100 ft of colliding with a FedEx cargo aircraft, however a quick-thinking pilot averted the catastrophe.
Why have there been a spate of mishaps in such a brief time period?
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