ATC Mistakes Sent 777 Towards California Mountain, NTSB Finds
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WASHINGTON—An air traffic controller’s errant instruction to turn left instead of right towards an assigned heading during a rare departure pattern out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) led an EVA Air Boeing 777 to within hundreds of feet of a mountain peak topped with large antennas, an...
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