A Southwest flight narrowly avoids being hit by a helicopter at Hollywood Burbank Airport

A plane nearly collided with a helicopter at a Southern California airport on Saturday, just days after the accident The Federal Aviation Administration held a summit on growing safety concerns.

FAA officials He said A Southwest Airlines flight was approaching a runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport on Saturday at around 9.50am when an air traffic controller noticed a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter on the same runway.

According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, the helicopter was practicing touch landings. Noticing the problem, the controller told the plane to go around it.

No one was injured and the matter is under investigation by the FAA at this time.

A similar situation unfolded at Burbank Airport in February after a Mesa Airlines flight was told to ground its landing, as the SkyWest was given the go-ahead to take off on the same runway. This was the fourth such incident in 2023.

According to NBC 4 Los Angeles, the Southwest flight, a Boeing 737, was only about a mile from the runway.

An air traffic controller who noticed the serious safety problem told the helicopter to stay on the runway and the southwest pilot to “go around” and not land.

During a similar incident last month at the same Southern California airport, an automatic alarm went off inside a Mesa Airlines plane as the planes worked to avoid near-collision.

The February scare is said to have been one of the major contributing factors that prompted the FAA to convene an impromptu safety summit to address the growing concerns.

Just weeks before the impending Burbank crash, two Alaska Airlines planes swept their tails on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as they took off.

This near miss was attributed to a software bug that caused the pilots to think their planes were 20,000 pounds lighter.

The issue was deemed serious enough for Alaska Airlines to proceed to grounding all aircraft nationwide in the immediate aftermath, according to Seattle Times.

At the time, an Alaska Airlines spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com that the incident had occurred and that the grounding lasted approximately 20 minutes.

“The back touches were caused by a vendor software update that was installed in error, resulting in inaccurate takeoff performance weight data for a small subset of our flights,” they said.

Just weeks earlier, a separate flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport had nearly witnessed a similar wreck, with a Delta plane nearly slamming nose-first into the side of an American Airlines plane that had crossed its runway.

The Boeing 737 was already traveling at 115 miles per hour when the air traffic controller noticed the impending disaster.

Another event close to call Signed on March 7th Between a Republic Airways flight and a United Airlines plane at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington.

The Republic flight had crossed a runway and was on its way to collide with the United plane, which had been cleared for takeoff.

This incident is also under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration at this time.

In an interview with NBC Nightly News Officials have started, said announcer Lester Holt, FAA Administrator Billy Nolen To see things we don’t expect to see.

“We expect each flight to function as it should,” Nolin said.

And so we’ve seen these events over the past few weeks. This gives us a moment to say, “Let’s pause. Let’s think. Let’s ask ourselves the question: Are we missing anything?” He said.

Nolen said more people are flying and more planes are in the air because of “pent-up demand for aviation.”

“Aviation is back with a vengeance, so to speak,” Nolin said.

talk with NBC4 Los AngelesRusty Aymer, retired commercial pilot and aviation expert Ross echoed Nolin’s remarks.

Airlines are increasing flights as much as they can. Aymer said: Everyone is in the air.

Despite the string of close calls, Aimer says people generally shouldn’t be concerned.

“But the system is secure,” Aymer said. “The system works.”

Close calls at US airports “are the canaries in the coal mine,” said the pilot behind Miracle on the Hudson, Capt. Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, now an aviation safety expert.

“We’ve lost a lot of our flights, and the recovery from COVID has been faster than many expected — so we’ve caught up in a lot of important ways and in hiring,” Sullenberger told the Today Show.

In January, a flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport nearly witnessed a similar wreck, with a Delta plane nearly hitting the side of an American Airlines plane that had crossed its runway.

The Boeing 737 was already traveling at 115 miles per hour when the air traffic controller noticed the impending disaster.

Forced to apply the brakes abruptly, the Delta pilot traveled another 661 feet before coming to a full stop with only 1,000 feet to spare before the plane brought down the American Airlines Boeing 777.

Despite the huge planes nearly colliding, the Delta pilot is later heard in cockpit audio recordings casually saying he would simply need to make some phone calls about the near-fatal accident.

The close calls join a growing list of failures in the nation’s aerospace industry, which has led to an imminent federal review of the nation’s space system.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the number of “runway intrusions” reached 1,633 last year.

Runway incursion is any time an aircraft, vehicle or person is incorrectly in a protected area during takeoff or landing.

The frightening number of close calls rose from 1,397 in 2012, while there were 987 reported incidents in 2002 alone.