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‘High risk’ of runway collisions


** FILE ** An aerial view of Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky. shows the airport's 3,500-foot-long general aviation runway crossing the longer main runway in this Aug. 27, 2006 file photo.  Comair Flight 5191 took off by mistake down unlit Runway 26, the shorter of the two runways, on Aug. 27, 2006, crashing and killing 49 people.  There is "a high risk of a catastrophic runway collision occurring in the United States" because of faltering federal leadership, malfunctioning technology and overworked air traffic controllers, congressional investigators concluded Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007.  (AP Photo/Al Behrman)Travelers face a high risk of a catastrophic collision on airport runways because of faltering leadership, malfunctioning technology and overworked controllers, investigators said.





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