By now, you’ve seen that video of the Airbus A350 burning on the runway in Japan after colliding with a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft that wasn’t supposed to be there.
The passengers and crew of the A350 got off safely, but the Coast Guard crew did not.
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And even though it happened half a world away, this is a warning for us.
Air travel may be safer than driving, but aircraft do not do well in collisions. And the rash of near misses at U.S. airports prompted a Senate hearing last November.
“The near misses we’ve been seeing
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