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The Daily Article

Airline close calls are more frequent than you may know

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In the last month, commercial airlines have experienced 46 close calls, a notable increase—and a reminder of both our human imperfection and finitude. Dr. Denison then turns to a discussion of AI, the greatness of God, and why being “good enough” actually isn’t good enough for us as Christians seeking to change the culture.

Author: Jim Denison, PhD

Narrator: Chris Elkins

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article podcast. Today's article is written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

0:39.9

An American Airlines flight to Dallas was recently traveling more than 500 miles an hour

0:45.6

when a collision warning began blaring in the cockpit.

0:49.0

An air traffic controller had mistakenly directed a United Airlines flight to fly dangerously close. The American pilot had to

0:57.0

quickly yank the Airbus A321 up 700 feet to avoid a collision. According to the New York Times,

1:04.6

this was one of 46 close calls involving commercial airlines just last month. As another example, a Southwest airline

1:13.7

pilot had to abort a landing at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on July 2nd,

1:20.2

avoiding by just a few seconds a collision with a Delta airline 737, preparing to take off on the same

1:26.8

runway. Nine days later, an American Airlines take off on the same runway.

1:33.0

Nine days later, an American Airlines jet was accelerating down the runway in San Francisco at more than 160 miles an hour when it narrowly avoided a frontier airline's plane

1:39.1

whose nose had almost jutted into its path.

1:42.2

According to the times, these are part of an alarming pattern of

1:46.3

safety lapses and near misses in the skies and on the runways of the United States. From a quote-unquote

1:53.1

slew of failures being blamed by locals for the devastating fires in Maui to the ongoing war in

1:59.4

Ukraine that has claimed nearly 500,000 casualties,

2:03.5

to the damage left by Tropical Storm Hillary in California and being caused by Tropical Storm

2:08.5

Herald in Texas, to a man who was stranded on an island in the Bahamas and had to be rescued

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