An American Airlines plane arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport had to pull up and go around instead of landing safely. This happened because an air traffic controller told the pilot to avoid getting too close to another plane that was taking off from the same runway. The incident involved American Flight 2246 coming from Boston and happened around 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday.
Just a couple of hours later, another plane at Chicago’s Midway Airport also had to climb back up into the sky to avoid an accident. This was Southwest Flight 2504 coming from Omaha, Nebraska. The crew did a go-around to stay safe from another aircraft that was on the runway. They followed the safety rules and landed without any problems.
Recently, there have been concerns about safety in the skies due to several serious airplane incidents. This includes a tragic crash of a small plane in Alaska on February 6 that took the lives of 10 people. There was also a midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport on January 26 that resulted in 67 fatalities. Additionally, a medical jet carrying a child and her mother crashed on January 31 in a Philadelphia neighborhood, killing everyone on board—seven people total—and injuring 19 others. On February 17, a Delta flight flipped and landed on its roof at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, injuring 21 passengers.
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