Austin Controller Cites ‘Expectation Bias’ In Southwest-FedEx Incursion
Credit: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
An air traffic controller’s erroneous assumptions about how quickly a Southwest Airlines flight would take off when cleared to go in front of an FedEx flight arriving on the same runway are emerging as a key factor in a February close call that saw the two aircraft nearly collide, newly released...
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