(CNN) - Three planes at Reagan National Airport recently came close to crashing because of an air traffic control "miscommunication," federal authorities said Thursday.
The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landing and departing aircraft because of bad weather.
"During the switchover of operations, miscommunication between the Tracon and the DCA tower led to a loss of the required separation between two regional jets departing from Runway 1 and a regional jet inbound for Runway 19," the Federal Aviation Administration said.
"Tracon," or terminal radar approach control, is a reference to a regional radar facility. "DCA" is the International Air Transport Association code for Reagan National Airport.
The FAA is investigating and plans to take "appropriate action to address the miscommunication."
Authorities didn't identify the airlines involved in the incident, but US Airways issued a statement, saying "we are currently investigating and working with the FAA to determine what occurred. The safety of our customers and employees is always our top priority."
Fucked up DC airport
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Goober McTuber
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Fucked up DC airport
Really, Screwball, is anything in that sorry excuse for a city ever done well?
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Re: Fucked up DC airport
DCA is in Arlington, where dickheaded Smackie Chan lives. And that's yet another reason why I prefer to not fly out of DCA. I go BWI or IAD if I must. Near misses happen about once a year at DCA.
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Re: Fucked up DC airport
Hardly the cities fault when it was Federal employees who messed up.
Couple of questions immediately come to mind though. Who was flying the RJ inbound to runway 19? What the hell was the other guy doing? Visability was decent so unless neither guy had eyes outside of the cockpit they should have seen the other jets climbing out.
Couple of questions immediately come to mind though. Who was flying the RJ inbound to runway 19? What the hell was the other guy doing? Visability was decent so unless neither guy had eyes outside of the cockpit they should have seen the other jets climbing out.
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Re: Fucked up DC airport
My best guess..Left Seater wrote: Who was flying the RJ inbound to runway 19? What the hell was the other guy doing?
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Get real, jizzy. You would prefer to fly out of...anywhere. But your long-distance travel budget pretty much limits you to...Screw_Michigan wrote:DCA is in Arlington, where dickheaded Smackie Chan lives. And that's yet another reason why I prefer to not fly out of DCA.
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And I did fly into DCA yesterday, too. Don't think we were involved in any near-collisions.