One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 14, 2025

There are runways 7L and 7R (which are parallel, at a heading of 70 degrees), and then theres runway 8 (which is nearly parallel, as its at a heading of 80 degrees). The runway layout at Phoenix Airport The United 737 was coming straight in to land on runway 7R. Meanwhile the Delta A330 was on a base leg for runway 8.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Final Approach 110

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 6, 2025

As an aviation geek,I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job coveringnoteworthy air traffic control interactions. So this isnt just some random dude flying his own jet, or something. Air traffic controller: Its okay.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach Clearance 117

Aerotime

JULY 10, 2024

Footage captured on a police vehicle’s dashcam appeared to show two regional jets almost collide midair in the United States (US). Video shot on July 8, 2024, showed a Delta Connection flight, operated by Endeavour Air, departing Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR), New York, shortly after 11:50. This is wild.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Runway Airplanes 273

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 3, 2025

Those are parallel runways, and of course its common to use parallel runways for multiple operations around the same time. While air traffic controllers instructed them to maintain vertical separation, that wasnt realistic given the limited departure separation. nautical miles apart.

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Cargo 99

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 16, 2025

Air traffic controllers at JFK are known for sometimes having an attitude. There were roughly a dozen planes awaiting departure from runway 31L. Planes were queueing in two different lines, with some on taxiway Z, and some on runway 22L (which wasnt being used for departures or arrivals). I need a callsign.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Jet 105

AV Web

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Investigators found multiple human errors to be the primary cause of the fatal collision between a Japan Airlines jet and a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) aircraft at Tokyos Haneda Airport earlier this year. Controllers also did not notice the runway occupancy alert (alerting them to a potential collision) had been going off for about a minute.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Clearance Jet 111

AV Web

MARCH 26, 2025

Controller hiring; the Washington, D.C. But notably, the interviewer asked pointed questions about general aviation operations mixing with airlines in response to the recent runway incursion at Chicago Midway Airport. midair; and the ever-popular whats up with Boeing were on the agenda.

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Air Traffic Control General Aviation Runway Jet 94

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 21, 2025

A Southwest Airlines jet attempted to take off from a taxiway yesterday, somehow mistaking it for a runway in broad daylight. At Orlando Airport, Southwest departs from airside 2, and the plane was supposed to take off from runway 17R, a very short distance away. The taxiway runs parallel to the runway.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Knot Pilot 82

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently revealed that a private jet carrying the Gonazaga University men's basketball team was recently involved in a runway incident. The aircraft was originally directed to hold short of a runway when the aircraft ventured into the hold bars.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Runway Approach 128

Aerotime

MARCH 26, 2025

On that fateful day of March 27, 1977, there were 583 fatalities between the KLM Boeing 747 and the Pan Am Boeing 747 ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas” Only 61 survivors somehow escaped the inferno that engulfed the airport runway. The controller confirmed that he heard the message and asked the pilots to report runway clear.

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Clearance Runway Weather Pilot 286

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and the VASAviation YouTube channel does an incredible job picking up on some of the more interesting interactions that happen. It has a single runway, and taxiways and terminal space on both sides of the runway.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Tarmac Flight Deck 89

Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Operated by one of the carrier’s 19-strong fleet of Boeing 747-8 widebodies as Lufthansa flight LH456, the aircraft made a standard approach to runway 24R at around midday on the day of operation. LH456 Heavy” is then ordered to climb to 2,000 ft before being given further instructions to switch radio frequency to Los Angeles Departures.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Threshold Descent 273

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 28, 2024

Southwest 737 uses closed runway in Portland, Maine This incident happened on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, and involves Southwest flight WN4805, scheduled to operate at 5:40AM from Portland, Maine (PWM), to Baltimore, Maryland (BWI). The air traffic control tower at the airport doesn’t open until 5:45AM.

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Runway Air Traffic Control NOTAMs Pilot 117

AV Web

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to reduce air traffic at Reagan Washington National Airport to address safety concerns following last weeks deadly midair collision between a regional jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, which claimed 67 lives.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Airplanes Jet 80

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The near-miss at Chicago Midway, caused by a runway incursion, is not so very rare. The FAA lists an average of 1,700 runway incursions per year from 2021-2024, the great majority of which had no immediate safety consequences or plenty of time and/or distance to avoid a collision (scroll down for runway incursion data ).

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Runway Jet Pilot Air Traffic Control 94

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Specifically, as the aircraft was still around three miles from the intended landing runway (28L), it descended all the way down to 275 feet, according to flight tracking software Flightradar24. Definitely flashbacks to 2013. Definitely flashbacks to 2013. As a result, they initiated a go around.

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Approach Knot Air Traffic Control Final Approach 102

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This isn’t good… air traffic controllers cleared two Southwest jets to use the same runway at the same time. VASAviation has an excellent video with both the air traffic control audio and a depiction of where the jets were located during the incident.

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Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control Jet 116

Fear of Landing

MARCH 21, 2025

At the same time, they released an an urgent recommendation report calling for the FAA to close the helicopter route that the military helicopter was following whenever runway 33 is in use. The NTSB recovers the debris of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk involved in a mid-air collision near DCA in Arlington, VA.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Descent 63

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction. The vortices flipped the small jet upside down at least three to five times before the pilots managed to regain control. ATRs, Dash 8s, large business jets.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 28, 2024

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job covering noteworthy air traffic control interactions. Well, VASAviation has just published another JFK ATC video, this time involving an Air France pilot.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Knot 120

One Mile at a Time

JULY 18, 2024

VASAviation is an awesome YouTube channel that shares some interesting air traffic control situations, with both ATC audio and a recreation of what happened. Sloppy LAX parallel takeoff leads to close call Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is of course a large and busy airport, and it has four (near) parallel runways.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Jet 116

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 21, 2024

The aircraft was cleared for a visual approach on runway 17R. Based on air traffic control audio , the pilots didn’t even realize what they were doing until the air traffic controller warned them, thanks to a low altitude alert in the tower: Air traffic controller: “Southwest 4069, low altitude alert, you good out there?”

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Pilot 124

One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

Around 2hr50min after departure, the plane was on approach to runway 10 at Tampa Airport. As the plane was coming in over Tampa Bay, while around four miles from the runway, it descended as low as 150 feet, according to ADS-B data. ATC: “Southwest 425, roger, cancel approach clearance, go around runway 10.

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Air Traffic Control Altimeter Runway Weather 141

AV Web

MARCH 2, 2025

Right after the mishap, which we likely would never have learned anything about save for some plane spotters exceeding their wildest expectations, he posted on X that it’s imperative that pilots follow the instructions of air traffic controllers. If they do not, their licenses will be pulled.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Approach 105

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 28, 2025

Air traffic controllers in New York have the reputation for sometimes having a bit of an attitude with pilots, and losing their cool. So heres an interesting interaction, where the opposite is true the pilot loses his cool, while the air traffic controller keeps his calm. Traffics on a mile final.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Clearance 84

One Mile at a Time

JULY 29, 2024

So the pilot of the first Delta jet advised air traffic control they’d need a minute to crunch the numbers on takeoff performance: Delta 1304 pilot: “Right now, for Delta 1304, we got four knots too much on the tailwind. Air traffic controller: “Delta 2046, that’s fine… and you have access now?”

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Jet 120

Simple Flying

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after air traffic controllers at San Diego International Airport cleared two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s to access the same runway.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Jet Airline 81

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A350 & CRJ-900 have serious incident at Atlanta Airport Shortly after 10AM this morning (Tuesday, September 10, 2024), two jets operating on behalf of Delta had a serious incident at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). BREAKING : Two Delta Airlines planes collide on runway at Georgia airport.

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Tail Jet Air Traffic Control Clearance 117

AV Web

JUNE 7, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined last year’s near collision between a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and a FedEx Boeing 767 on an Austin, Texas runway was caused by a lack of critical safety technology and errors made by an air traffic controller. That is how we save lives.”

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Air Traffic Control Runway Jet Airline 98

One Mile at a Time

MAY 29, 2024

The aircraft was cleared to depart runway 35L at Congonhas Airport. This runway is 6,173 feet (or 1,883 meters) long. For whatever reason, during its takeoff roll, the jet took up the entire length of the runway, and only rotated meters before the end of the runway. What could cause an incident like this?

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Runway Air Traffic Control Weather Jet 115

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jet (and turboprop) turbine engines work more efficiently, and burn less fuel, at higher altitudes where the air is less dense. Depending on other traffic ahead, not least at the destination, air traffic controllers (ATC) will clear the flight to descend in stages, to be level at certain waypoints on the arrival route.

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Cabin Crew Descent Runway Approach 260

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Air traffic control instructions often lead to unstable approaches. According to the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam), a stable approach is defined as one in which the pilot establishes and maintains a constant angle glidepath toward a predetermined point on the landing runway. By Shannon Forrest ATP/CFII.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Flightworx

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Embarking on a journey with a private jet in the UK is an experience that combines luxury, efficiency, and meticulous planning. For jet owners and aviation aficionados, it’s about much more than simply taking off and landing; it’s about harmonising with the rhythm of aviation rules and luxuries.

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Runway Jet Fixed Base Operator Flight Plan 52

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 31, 2025

A week later, a Blackhawk military helicopter collided with a PSA Airlines regional jet maneuvering to land at Reagan National Airport. As I understand it, the crew of the helicopter told air traffic control it had the regional jet in sight, and was asked to “maintain visual separation,” as we say.

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Air Traffic Control Transponder Jet Pilot 93

Northstar VFR

MAY 9, 2024

It was for me, especially when I had to fly to a towered field and talk to Air Traffic Control (ATC). In the back of the AIM is the Pilot Controller Glossary with a long list of ATC phraseology to promote a common understanding of terms used in the Air Traffic Control system.

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Aeronautical Information Manual Clearance 81

Air Facts

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I was flying a T-38 solo at night as a student, returning to Vance Air Force Base. The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. The base should be to the right of the runway.” How can that be?

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Runway Pilot Aileron Approach 98

Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 10, 2024

It also keeps planes organized on the runway, but what is it exactly? Aviation taxiing is when an airplane or other aircraft with wheels rolls off, on, or along the runway at a slow, consistent speed. It uses a propulsion system comprising propellers or jet engines to navigate at a certain set speed limit.

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Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control Pilot 52