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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Runways at U.S. airports were slightly safer last year than they were the year before, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
Fewer people, vehicles and airplanes entered runways by mistake, thus reducing the chance of collisions, the FAA said.
The FAA reported 324 so-called runway incursions between October 1, 2002, and September 30, 2003, a 4 percent decrease from 339 in the previous 12 months.
The number of most serious incidents -- when a collision was avoided only because a plane or vehicle quicly moved out of the way -- fell 50 percent over the last four years, from 67 to 32.
The agency credited new technology and an education campaign for the safety improvement.
One of the worst aviation disasters in history happened on a runway, when two jumbo jets collided at the airport in Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1977, killing 582 people.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Runways at U.S. airports were slightly safer last year than they were the year before, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
Fewer people, vehicles and airplanes entered runways by mistake, thus reducing the chance of collisions, the FAA said.
The FAA reported 324 so-called runway incursions between October 1, 2002, and September 30, 2003, a 4 percent decrease from 339 in the previous 12 months.
The number of most serious incidents -- when a collision was avoided only because a plane or vehicle quicly moved out of the way -- fell 50 percent over the last four years, from 67 to 32.
The agency credited new technology and an education campaign for the safety improvement.
One of the worst aviation disasters in history happened on a runway, when two jumbo jets collided at the airport in Tenerife in the Canary Islands in 1977, killing 582 people.
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