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Aviation Week & Space Technology 2011-04-25

VOL. 173 NO. 15 April 25, 2011

Reality Check

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Minor Collision At JFK Spotlights Danger Of ‘Routine’

Apr 25, 2011
Flight safety encompasses multiple aspects and requires lots of imagination to achieve further improvements. The latest event on April 11 at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport was much more than a minor taxiway incident. The nighttime collision—in which the left wing of an Air France A380 spun a small Comair Bombardier CRJ700 90 deg.—will certainly be carefully investigated as it could reveal a new form of “loss of vigilance.”