On August 11, 2023, a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines and a Cessna Citation 560X business jet nearly collided at San Diego Airport. The regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration, now wants to take a close look at the incident.
For about two years, the number of near misses on runways and taxiways has been increasing in the United States of America. Around noon on Friday, August 11, 2023, San Diego Airport ran out again.
According to a statement by the FAA, which is based on preliminary investigation results, the business jet is said to have been granted permission to land on runway 27. However, at about the same time, Southwest Airlines Flight 2493 was cleared to taxi onto this exact runway. The fact that no catastrophe occurred is also thanks to the technical equipment at San Diego Airport.
This is equipped with an automatic surface surveillance system that immediately sounded the alarm. As a precaution, the Cessna was instructed to abort the landing approach immediately and to wait for further instructions. This decision by the controllers was absolutely correct, because such a serious accident could possibly have been prevented.
The FAA has commissioned the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct an investigation to find out how it could happen that two aircraft were authorized to use the same runway at the same time. The authority said in an official statement: "The NTSB is investigating the incident on August 11, when a Cessna 560X was cleared to land on runway 27 and collided with a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that was in a queue on runway 27. No injuries or damage were reported."
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