Logan Airport: 17 runway incidents in 14 months

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Apparently, the most of any US airport.

The Nov. 29 incident was not as serious as a June 9 close call, when two passenger jets with 381 people on board came within 106 vertical feet of colliding on takeoff, prompting new scrutiny of runway safety at Logan. But it continues a string of runway incursions that is one of the more perplexing in the nation. The 16 incidents between Oct. 1, 2004, and Sept. 30 were double Logan's total for the prior three-year period. Logan, with about 1,250 daily departures and arrivals, is the nation's 17th busiest airport.

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Logan airport sucks! What else is new? We knew it for at least a decade! First it was security, now it's safety.

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yes, I wonder what are they smoking there...

Well... I suppose with 400,000 flights without fatalities in a typical year, it's still fine to use probability-wise...

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we had this weird snowstorm today with lightning and thunder (pretty impressive), and a landing jet was struck by a lightning:

In Boston, a plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Logan International Airport after it was struck by lightning as it approached the runway. No injuries were reported among the 35 passengers and three crew members on board Comair Flight 5437 from Baltimore, but an airport spokesman said the plane suffered minor damage.

Janie Brooks, one of the passengers, said it was a "lovely flight" before the lightning struck.

"There was a large ball of orange something -- very loud and very bright and very bumpy. We were a little scared," Brooks told WBZ-TV.

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MA's weather management could use some improvement :-)