Sean Broderick
20 June 2024

Photo credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

An inattentive air traffic controller left too little distance between an incoming Mesa Airlines Bombardier CRJ-900 and a departing SkyWest Airlines Embraer E170, causing the two planes to come within about 1,700 feet of each other as the Mesa flight turned around, according to a preliminary NTSB report. In…

Sean Broderick

Sean Broderick, senior aviation and safety editor, covers aviation safety, MRO and the airline business from Aviation Week Network’s Washington bureau.

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