Two Chinese Passenger Jets Nearly Collide at Shanghai Airport
13 October 2016 - 4:40PM
Dow Jones News
BEIJING—Mistakes by air-traffic control caused a "near miss"
between two Chinese passengers jets at a Shanghai airport this
week, China's civil-aviation authority said.
In Tuesday's incident, a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A320 was
taking off from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport when its
crew spotted an Airbus 330 preparing to taxi across its path,
according to the authority.
The A320 captain decided to proceed with the takeoff, according
to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, which
deemed the A330's "runway incursion" as an "unsafe incident." Local
media reports said the A320 flew over the other plane; the CAAC
didn't provide further details on the takeoff in its statement
beyond saying that the flight continued.
The CAAC didn't identify the A330's operator, while local media
reports said it was also a China Eastern aircraft.
Initial findings by CAAC investigators showed that the near miss
was caused by errors in air-traffic directions from the control
tower, the authority said in a statement published Wednesday on its
website.
China Eastern, in a brief statement published on its official
microblog on the Weibo social-media platform, said its crew
"discovered a flight conflict" while following air-traffic control
instructions, and dealt with the issue in a "timely" manner.
China Eastern didn't immediately respond to a request for
further comment. Shanghai Airport Authority, which operates
Hongqiao International Airport, didn't immediately respond to
queries about the CAAC's findings.
Write to Chun Han Wong at chunhan.wong@wsj.com
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