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United Airlines Plane Has Close Call With Black Hawk Helicopter
The air traffic control tower at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California.
Photographer: FG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty ImagesA Black Hawk helicopter crossed in front of a United Airlines Holdings Inc. plane landing at John Wayne Airport in Southern California on Tuesday evening, resulting in the jet’s pilot getting a collision avoidance alert.
The close call is the latest in a string of incidents involving helicopters and commercial passenger jets. The US Federal Aviation Administration has been trying to clamp down on these occurrences after a US Army Black Hawk collided with an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet near Washington last year, killing 67 people.