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Originally Posted by Michael Cleary
An aircraft carrying Michelle Obama had to "go around" due to a separation issue and the FAA says that "it is believed to be an Air Traffic Controller mistake"
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There are suggestions that the controller should have slowed Obama's plane earlier to avoid the separation failure.
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NTSB OPENING INVESTIGATION INTO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL INCIDENT
INVOLVING AIRCRAFT CARRYING MICHELLE OBAMA
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The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an
investigation into an air traffic control incident on Monday
in which the airplane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama
aborted a landing attempt at Andrews Air Force Base after an
air traffic controller had sequenced it too close to another
military plane.
At about 5 pm ET on April 18, the military version of a B-
737 that Mrs. Obama was traveling in was directed to abort
its landing attempt after the required minimum separation
between it and a C-17 military aircraft that was landing
ahead of it was compromised.
The incident involved Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
air traffic controllers at the Potomac TRACON facility in
Virginia and at the Andrews tower in Maryland.
NTSB Air Traffic Control specialist Dan Bartlett is the
investigator-in-charge. Parties to the investigation
are the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers union.
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