Air traffic control blamed in Aer Lingus near miss

AN Aer Lingus aircraft with 340 people on board narrowly avoided a fatal collision during take-off because of a mistake by an air traffic controller, an official investigation has revealed.

An inquiry by the US National Transportation Safety Board has blamed the incident on human error for the “near miss” incident at Boston’s Logan Airport on June 9, 2005.

The incident involved an Aer Lingus Airbus A330 and a US Airways flight.