Incidents Put Spotlight On FAA Runway Safety Improvement Initiative

John F. Kennedy International Airport runway

Data suggests the FAA has made progress in reducing serious runway incursions.

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A pair of significant occurrences at U.S. airports are generating fresh scrutiny of the FAA’s multiyear runway safety improvement efforts, which the agency’s own data suggest are yielding mixed results. Investigations of the two episodes are in early stages. In the first, at New York John F. Kennedy...
Sean Broderick

Senior Air Transport & Safety Editor Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.

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