Federal authorities are investigating a close to collision on the Hollywood Burbank Airport, pictured in 2020.

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Federal authorities are investigating a close to collision on the Hollywood Burbank Airport, pictured in 2020.

Mark J. Terrill/AP

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating one other close to collision between passenger jets this week.

The pilots of a Mesa Airlines airplane deserted a touchdown try on the Burbank, Calif., airport Wednesday and initiated a go-around to keep away from a Sky West jet that had been cleared by air site visitors management to take off on the identical runway.

No harm or accidents had been reported, however that is not less than the fourth such runway incursion that would have resulted in a lethal crash at a U.S. airport since mid-January, elevating important security issues amongst lawmakers and throughout the aviation trade.

According to the FAA, an air site visitors controller cleared a SkyWest Airlines Embraer E175 to take off from Runway 33 on the Hollywood Burbank Airport round 6:55 p.m. native time. At the identical time, a Mesa Airlines Bombardier CRJ900 was approaching to land on the identical runway and was roughly 1.3 miles out from the airport.

“The Mesa pilot discontinued the landing and initiated a climb out,” the FAA says in a press release. “Meanwhile, the SkyWest aircraft continued with its departure, which prompted an automated alert to sound on the flight deck of the Mesa aircraft. The controller instructed the Mesa crew to turn to a course that took it away from the other aircraft.”

The incident is much like one on the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas throughout a dense fog on the morning of Feb. 4. A FedEx cargo jet was cleared to land on the identical runway {that a} Southwest Airlines passenger jet was already on and starting its roll to take off. The FedEx pilot pulled up simply in time because the NTSB says the 2 airplanes got here inside 100 ft of each other.

On Jan. 13, at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, an American Airlines airplane mistakenly crossed an energetic runway on which a Delta Air Lines jet was simply starting to take off. Air site visitors controllers issued an pressing warning for the Delta pilots to abort, which they did, coming inside roughly 1,400 ft from the American jetliner.

And on the Daniel Okay. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Jan. 23, a United Airlines airplane crossed a runway {that a} non-public Cessna airplane was touchdown on.

The shut calls — together with the failure of a essential FAA pilot notification system in January that led to an hours-long, nationwide floor cease of departing flights — raised alarm bells in Congress, as lawmakers in each chambers held hearings on the issues in current weeks.

The aviation security issues will once more be entrance and middle subsequent week. On Wednesday, the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is scheduled to carry a long-awaited listening to on Phillip A. Washington, President Biden’s nominee to move the FAA.

Washington is presently the chief govt of the Denver International Airport, a publish he has held for lower than two years after a protracted profession in mass transit management. Republicans have already sharply criticized the pick, citing Washington’s lack of expertise in aviation.