Near-miss paa ATL

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http://www.ajc.com/business/content/...ge_tab_newstab

Bergen said initial indications suggest the pilots of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 876 to Greensboro, N.C., improperly taxied across the runway after controllers in the Hartsfield-Jackson tower ordered the plane to stop short. The pilot, Bergen said, apparently acknowledged those instructions and repeated them back to the tower, but the jet continued across the active runway.

"It's fortunate the (ASA) plane continued through the intersection because the Delta flight could not have stopped," said Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "If that (ASA) plane had stopped, there would have been a collision."