"FAA Takes Action: Addressing Close Call Incidents with Runway Safety Meetings"
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be conducting runway safety meetings at 90 airports in response to a series of close-call aviation incidents. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating a near collision between a Southwest Airlines plane and a Cessna Citation business jet in San Diego. The NTSB is also investigating seven other runway incursion events. The meetings, called "Runway Safety Action Team," will bring together representatives from the FAA, airlines, pilots, and others to identify and mitigate risks to surface safety at each airport. The FAA has been without a permanent administrator since April, and the agency's preliminary review of the recent incident in San Diego showed an air traffic controller's error in clearing both planes to use the same runway.