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  • January
    2012

"You've got two rolling!" shouts one air traffic controller to his colleague - a colleague that happened to have a history of disciplinary incidents like failing to alert his supervisors that he had been arrested for DWI.

We usually handle wrongful death claims related to car accident cases, not aviation cases, but if the two "rolling" airplanes had collided, it would undoubtedly have resulted in dozens of fatalities.

As the Associated Press reports, the air traffic controller cleared a regional passenger jet on one runway, while simultaneously clearing a single-engine Cessna flown by a student pilot on an intersecting runway.

The two planes actually passed within 300 feet of each other.

Reportedly, the captain of the regional passenger jet said, "Wow, that was close."

Source: NTSB: Controller nearly caused midair collision