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Runway Safety Remains in the Spotlight on Capitol Hill

Steve Scott

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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Witnesses testifying Feb. 13 at a House aviation subcommittee hearing on runway safety said that although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made great strides in addressing the issue, runway incursions remain a major air safety problem. The most serious incursions, Categories A and B, actually declined from 69 incidents in Fiscal Year 1999 to 24 in FY2007, Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel said in testimony. But in the first three months of this fiscal year, serious runways…

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