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2 Planes With Same Call Sign in Phoenix Could Have Been ‘Disastrous’

An air traffic controller noticed that two planes — one departing, one landing — were both flight 2482. He acted quickly to avoid confusion.

© Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

“I’ve been working air traffic for 25 years — I’ve never seen two aircraft pretty much emerge with the same call sign,” the controller who discovered the overlap said.
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