Senate Investigates Aviation Safety Gaps
Summary
Car Crash Wheelersburg Ohio in Wheelersburg, Ohio: A Senate subcommittee convened a hearing on June 23 to examine aviation safety gaps following a cluster of recent incidents. Within nine days, a skydiving aircraft crashed near Butler, Missouri on June 14, killing all 12 people aboard; a B-52 Stratofortress crashed near Edwards Air Force Base, killing all eight crew members; and a Marine Corps F/A-18D crashed southeast of Seattle on June 13, with the pilot ejecting safely. A runway incursion at Boston Logan International Airport forced a Delta Air Lines flight carrying 135 people to execute an emergency go-around after air traffic control cleared an American Airlines aircraft into its landing path. Earlier in the month, a Cirrus SR-20 crashed into a house in Wheelersburg, Ohio, and a Lancair Legacy 2000 went through a fence after landing at Whiteman Airport in Los Angeles.
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