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Article: Runway incidents on the rise at San Jose, SFO
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 24, 2007
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San Jose and San Francisco's airports both had a troubling uptick
in the number of obstructed-runway incidents in the past 12 months,
the Federal Aviation Administration reported Monday, although all
but one of the incidents was classified as minor.
Even more serious at San Jose, the FAA reported, was that there
were several instances of small aircraft pilots being confused about
which of the airport's three parallel runways to use for landing. On
Monday the FAA announced some remedies it had suggested to 20
airports nationwide that had runway safety problems.
San Jose officials said they are already planning to install
additional lighting at its smallest runway. San Francisco airport ...