possible near collision

NEW YORK (CNN) -- An incident involving two airborne passenger jets on
Friday has raised questions of a second possible near collision within a
week at New York's John F. Kennedy International AirportA Delta Boeing 757
similar to this crossed the path of another jetliner while aborting a
landing, the FAA says.


Delta Flight 123, a Boeing 757, missed a landing approach and had to "go
around," the path of Comair Flight 1520, which was taking off on a
perpendicular runway, according to Federal Aviation Administration
spokeswoman Laura Brown.

Brown said the two aircraft were more than a half mile away from each other
and weren't at the same altitude. Air traffic controllers safely separated
the two aircraft, she said.

National Air Traffic Controllers Association JFK Tower Facility
representative Barrett Byrnes, however, said the two planes came within 600
feet of each other.

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On Friday afternoon, the FAA ordered changes to the way takeoffs and
landings on perpendicular runways are sequenced so "aircraft of one runway
clear out of the path of the other runway before the second flight comes
down," Brown told The Associated Press.

Last Saturday, Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile Flight 533, which was departing
the airport, came close to Cayman Airways Flight 792 as it was landing,
according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting
an investigation.

There were conflicting reports of how close the planes were in that incident
as well.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said that although the
flights crossed paths, there was a vertical distance of 100 feet between
them. The FAA said the planes were 300 vertical feet apart and half a mile
apart horizontally.
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