The Nation - News from May 29, 1986
Federal safety officials recommended assigning special air traffic controllers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport--the world’s busiest--to prevent runway collisions in a test that may be implemented nationwide. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its report on the near collision of two planes at O’Hare last May 17, said the brush with disaster was the second such incident there in less than three months. In the latest incident, the two planes, on intersecting runways and carrying a total of 224 people, missed each other by only 10 to 20 feet.
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