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FAA: Westchester airport near-crash due to pilot's error

Westchester County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport

Photo credit: Nancy Siesel | Westchester County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Harrison. (April 26, 2012)

One of the pilots involved in a near-collision between two planes at Westchester County Airport this weekend was landing out of sequence, against the instructions of an air traffic controller, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.

No one was hurt, and the two planes never came in contact. Nonetheless, aviation and airport authorities are taking the incident seriously. An FAA...

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