He added the airport has put other measures in place. That person was removed from service was counseled and also was retrained,” Dillon said. We also did counsel, our operations person that was on duty that night for failing to escort that vehicle appropriately. “He was removed from the job at that point, was not allowed to work until he was retrained. The FAA said Bradley took appropriate action to address the issue, which Dillon said included both an airport employee and the contractor who crossed the runway hold short line. In the case of this individual, it appeared to be simply a lack of situational awareness.” We asked Connecticut Airport Authority Director Kevin Dillon about the incident. He told NBC Connecticut Investigates, “We have a very comprehensive training program here.
The FAA did not take enforcement action against Bradley, but it did give the airport a warning letter…in a statement saying its “…investigation found that Bradley International Airport did not provide enough personnel to handle the construction activities on the evening in question, did not sufficiently train the contractor for operating on the airfield unescorted, and did not strictly follow its plans for managing construction vehicles.” And so in the end, I think the safety net, that people expect to be surrounding an airliner when they sit down on it, remained intact,” Cox said. “I think in the end, the pilots were conservative, the air traffic controllers performed well. He said what happened was a powerful lesson for everyone involved, but, the system worked. “To have something like there may be a vehicle pull out in front of us. NBC Connecticut Investigates shared the air traffic audio with NBC News Aviation Analyst Captain John Cox, a former commercial airline pilot who says he has flown planes into Bradley many times. The FAA gave the Bradley incident a rating of a “B,” defined by the agency as an incursion where “…there is a significant potential for collision, which may result in a time critical corrective/evasive response.” Incursions are categorized from A to D, with A being the most serious.
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The only Bradley operations specialist on duty that night said in a statement to the FAA that the driver of one of the vehicles on the closed runway “…said he got confused…” because construction barricades were placed in different spots than they were on previous evenings. It turns out no vehicles crossed the runway Delta 2679 was landing on, but the FAA said one did go past a “hold short line” nearby…which makes it a “runway incursion,” defined by the FAA as “…the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.” They didn’t comment further to NBC Connecticut Investigates about what happened. The Connecticut Airport Authority says no one was hurt.ĭelta Airlines confirms it reported the incident to the FAA. Pedestrian hospitalized after hit-and-run in Hartford
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