AV Web

DECEMBER 30, 2024

What appears to have been a potential, maybe incipient runway incursion at LAX was caught on video by Airline Videos, a YouTube channel that livestreams movements at the airport. 27 a Delta Airlines A321 was on the roll on Runway 24 heading for Atlanta. The jet never crossed the runway edge line.” At about 4:20 p.m.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Jet Airplanes 105

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

However, for whatever reason, the pilots taxied right across runway 31C, as the Southwest 737 was flaring to land. According to ADS-B data, the Southwest 737 was only feet above the runway surface, and around 1,600 feet short of the intersection where the other jet was taxiing.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot Clearance 117

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 14, 2025

There are runways 7L and 7R (which are parallel, at a heading of 70 degrees), and then theres runway 8 (which is nearly parallel, as its at a heading of 80 degrees). The runway layout at Phoenix Airport The United 737 was coming straight in to land on runway 7R. Meanwhile the Delta A330 was on a base leg for runway 8.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Final Approach 111

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 6, 2025

As an aviation geek,I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job coveringnoteworthy air traffic control interactions. So this isnt just some random dude flying his own jet, or something. Air traffic controller: Its okay.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach Clearance 117

Aerotime

JULY 10, 2024

Footage captured on a police vehicle’s dashcam appeared to show two regional jets almost collide midair in the United States (US). Video shot on July 8, 2024, showed a Delta Connection flight, operated by Endeavour Air, departing Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR), New York, shortly after 11:50. This is wild.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Runway Airplanes 281

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 3, 2025

Those are parallel runways, and of course its common to use parallel runways for multiple operations around the same time. While air traffic controllers instructed them to maintain vertical separation, that wasnt realistic given the limited departure separation. nautical miles apart.

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Cargo 100

AV Web

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Investigators found multiple human errors to be the primary cause of the fatal collision between a Japan Airlines jet and a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) aircraft at Tokyos Haneda Airport earlier this year. Controllers also did not notice the runway occupancy alert (alerting them to a potential collision) had been going off for about a minute.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Clearance Jet 111

One Mile at a Time

MAY 23, 2025

Early yesterday morning, a private jet tragically crashed in San Diego. pic.twitter.com/Roc5zx78rE Cody Hanlon (@CodyLNG) May 22, 2025 VASAviation has the air traffic control audio from this incident. He asked the air traffic controller for an updated weather report, saying I want to see what Im in for here.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Approach Weather 91

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 16, 2025

Air traffic controllers at JFK are known for sometimes having an attitude. There were roughly a dozen planes awaiting departure from runway 31L. Planes were queueing in two different lines, with some on taxiway Z, and some on runway 22L (which wasnt being used for departures or arrivals). I need a callsign.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Jet 106

One Mile at a Time

MAY 28, 2025

A Southwest Airlines jet had a pretty dramatic approach to Denver International Airport (DEN), after it was struck by lightning, and the pilots lost radio communication. While descending through around 11,000 feet on the downwind for runway 17L, the aircraft was struck by lightning.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Pilot Jet 99

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 30, 2025

However, an American jet had an emergency a couple of days ago that I think is worth covering, for the interesting air traffic control audio, if nothing else (thanks to @xJonNYC for flagging this). Shortly after the aircraft departed DFW, the pilots reported an emergency to the air traffic controller on frequency.

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Cockpit Air Traffic Control Pilot Jet 76

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 27, 2025

Two seconds after the controllers cut out instruction about passing behind the jet, Warrant Officer Eaves replied, affirming for the second time that the Black Hawk saw the traffic. Vis sep approved, the controller replied. The Black Hawk was 15 seconds away from crossing paths with the jet. She did not turn left.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Jet Transponder 101

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 14, 2025

Im not sure what to make of this incident, other than being grateful that the Southwest Airlines pilots seemed to know what they were doing Van Nuys tower struggles to deal with difficult situation VASAviation has the air traffic control audio and a visualization of a close call in Southern California, which happened on March 17, 2025.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Pilot 87

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 21, 2025

A Southwest Airlines jet attempted to take off from a taxiway yesterday, somehow mistaking it for a runway in broad daylight. At Orlando Airport, Southwest departs from airside 2, and the plane was supposed to take off from runway 17R, a very short distance away. The taxiway runs parallel to the runway.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Knot Pilot 83

AV Web

MARCH 26, 2025

Controller hiring; the Washington, D.C. But notably, the interviewer asked pointed questions about general aviation operations mixing with airlines in response to the recent runway incursion at Chicago Midway Airport. midair; and the ever-popular whats up with Boeing were on the agenda.

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Air Traffic Control General Aviation Runway Jet 93

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and the VASAviation YouTube channel does an incredible job picking up on some of the more interesting interactions that happen. It has a single runway, and taxiways and terminal space on both sides of the runway.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Tarmac Flight Deck 90

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently revealed that a private jet carrying the Gonazaga University men's basketball team was recently involved in a runway incident. The aircraft was originally directed to hold short of a runway when the aircraft ventured into the hold bars.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Runway Approach 128

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 28, 2024

Southwest 737 uses closed runway in Portland, Maine This incident happened on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, and involves Southwest flight WN4805, scheduled to operate at 5:40AM from Portland, Maine (PWM), to Baltimore, Maryland (BWI). The air traffic control tower at the airport doesn’t open until 5:45AM.

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Runway Air Traffic Control NOTAMs Pilot 117

Flying Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

With a few instrument lessons under my belt, I felt confident to try a relatively straightforward flight under instrument conditions in the simulator using the VATSIM live air traffic control service. I had prepped for an ILS to Runway 11 at KPWM as the wind from the METAR in-sim supported that decision.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Weather Descent 111

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

NTSB Investigators know that the Black Hawk was visible on radar screens, but the ADS-B is an advanced surveillance technology that provides more accurate details to air traffic control and other aircraft pilots.

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Air Traffic Control Tail Runway Jet 297

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The near-miss at Chicago Midway, caused by a runway incursion, is not so very rare. The FAA lists an average of 1,700 runway incursions per year from 2021-2024, the great majority of which had no immediate safety consequences or plenty of time and/or distance to avoid a collision (scroll down for runway incursion data ).

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Runway Jet Pilot Air Traffic Control 99

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

On Tuesday, though, the airport welcomed an aircraft unlike any that has ever graced its runways. Watching Alia from the runway were representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and state officials, including Senator John Liu (D-N.Y.).

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Air Traffic Control Airplanes Lift Runway 115

Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Operated by one of the carrier’s 19-strong fleet of Boeing 747-8 widebodies as Lufthansa flight LH456, the aircraft made a standard approach to runway 24R at around midday on the day of operation. LH456 Heavy” is then ordered to climb to 2,000 ft before being given further instructions to switch radio frequency to Los Angeles Departures.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Threshold Descent 281

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Specifically, as the aircraft was still around three miles from the intended landing runway (28L), it descended all the way down to 275 feet, according to flight tracking software Flightradar24. Definitely flashbacks to 2013. Definitely flashbacks to 2013. As a result, they initiated a go around.

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Approach Knot Air Traffic Control Final Approach 103

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 21, 2025

The aircraft was scheduled to depart at around 6PM, and began it takeoff roll from runway 9R. The crew made the decision to reject the takeoff due to an alarm that went off in the flight deck, and briefly stopped on the runway. The air traffic controller cleared the jet to vacate the runway, and then taxi via taxiways C and A.

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Wide-Body Aircraft Runway Air Traffic Control Flight Deck 85

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This isn’t good… air traffic controllers cleared two Southwest jets to use the same runway at the same time. VASAviation has an excellent video with both the air traffic control audio and a depiction of where the jets were located during the incident.

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Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control Knot 116

Fear of Landing

MARCH 21, 2025

At the same time, they released an an urgent recommendation report calling for the FAA to close the helicopter route that the military helicopter was following whenever runway 33 is in use. The NTSB recovers the debris of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk involved in a mid-air collision near DCA in Arlington, VA.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Descent 73

One Mile at a Time

MAY 30, 2025

There was an uncomfortably close call at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) a couple of weeks ago, as two jets departing on parallel runways ended up dangerously close to one another on their climb out. However, a moment after takeoff, the United jet made a sharp turn to the left, rather than flying right, as it was supposed to.

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Jet Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway 92

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 28, 2024

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job covering noteworthy air traffic control interactions. Well, VASAviation has just published another JFK ATC video, this time involving an Air France pilot.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Knot 120

One Mile at a Time

JULY 18, 2024

VASAviation is an awesome YouTube channel that shares some interesting air traffic control situations, with both ATC audio and a recreation of what happened. Sloppy LAX parallel takeoff leads to close call Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is of course a large and busy airport, and it has four (near) parallel runways.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Jet 116

AV Web

MARCH 2, 2025

Right after the mishap, which we likely would never have learned anything about save for some plane spotters exceeding their wildest expectations, he posted on X that it’s imperative that pilots follow the instructions of air traffic controllers. If they do not, their licenses will be pulled.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Approach 105

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 21, 2024

The aircraft was cleared for a visual approach on runway 17R. Based on air traffic control audio , the pilots didn’t even realize what they were doing until the air traffic controller warned them, thanks to a low altitude alert in the tower: Air traffic controller: “Southwest 4069, low altitude alert, you good out there?”

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Pilot 124

One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

Around 2hr50min after departure, the plane was on approach to runway 10 at Tampa Airport. As the plane was coming in over Tampa Bay, while around four miles from the runway, it descended as low as 150 feet, according to ADS-B data. ATC: “Southwest 425, roger, cancel approach clearance, go around runway 10.

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Air Traffic Control Altimeter Weather Runway 141

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction. The vortices flipped the small jet upside down at least three to five times before the pilots managed to regain control. ATRs, Dash 8s, large business jets.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Clear weather, everything as usual, and the airfield quiet – just ourselves following a BA 747 to the runway. The controller anticipated a late landing clearance due to this aircraft in front. Jumbo on the runway, be down in a few minutes.” By Jove, Carruthers, isn’t that a jumbo on the runway? What could be simpler?

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 104

Professional Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

F or the past 50 years, the technology deployed in Americas 520 air traffic control towers has ossified. A better idea which is barely mentioned in that plan is to upgrade the entire airport control system with new digital technologies, usually termed a remote digital tower. The art is making the runway look straight.

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Air Traffic Control Airplanes General Aviation Runway 52

One Mile at a Time

JULY 29, 2024

So the pilot of the first Delta jet advised air traffic control they’d need a minute to crunch the numbers on takeoff performance: Delta 1304 pilot: “Right now, for Delta 1304, we got four knots too much on the tailwind. Air traffic controller: “Delta 2046, that’s fine… and you have access now?”

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Jet 120