=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/c/a/2008/07/12/MNOP11O1K8= .DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 12, 2008 (SF Chronicle) Second near miss this week at JFK airport Associated Press (07-12) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Two airborne planes - one landing and the other taking off - came within= a half-mile of colliding at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday in the second such incident at the airport in a week, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA quickly moved to change takeoff and landing procedures at JFK on perpendicular runways - the kind of runways involved in both incidents. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said Delta Flight 123 was arriving at the New York airport when the pilot decided to abort his landing and execute a "go-around" - a routine procedure often used during heavy congestion. That caused the Delta flight to intersect with the flight path of Comair Flight 1520, a regional jet that was taking off on another runway. The FAA ordered new procedures Friday afternoon to change the way takeof= fs and landings on perpendicular runways are sequenced, Brown said. The new procedures are designed to ensure "that aircraft of one runway clear out of the path of the other runway before the second flight comes down on the other runway," Brown said. Last Saturday, a Cayman Airways flight was landing at JFK when the pilot decided to abort the landing and fly around again as a LAN Chile jet was taking off. Their flight paths crossed, bringing the planes within about 200 feet of each other vertically and a half-mile horizontally. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating that incident.= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2008 SF Chronicle <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the AIRLINE List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF AIRLINE".