{"id":382392,"date":"2011-04-19T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/19\/michelle-obamas-jet-too-close\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T23:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T23:43:39","slug":"michelle-obamas-jet-too-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/19\/michelle-obamas-jet-too-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama&#8217;s jet &#8216;too close&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"65.5985589295\"><span><span>19 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>19:43 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A plane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama had to abort a landing near Washington DC after an apparent air traffic controller&#8217;s error.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft carrying her came within three miles of a military cargo jet, rather than the minimum five-mile distance set by US aviation officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the planes &#8220;were never in any danger&#8221;. Both landed safely.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is investigating Tuesday&#8217;s alert as a possible controller&#8217;s error.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest in a series of episodes involving apparent lapses by air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Several controllers and supervisors have been suspended by the FAA since late March over incidents involving workers sleeping on the job, almost all of them during overnight shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Another controller was suspended on Monday for watching a film when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft in Ohio, the FAA said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, air traffic controllers at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland ordered the Boeing 737 carrying Mrs Obama to abort its planned landing after it came within three miles of a C-17 cargo plane.<\/p>\n<p>Under FAA rules, a minimum separation of five miles was required between the C-17 and the next plane to avoid dangerous turbulence from the cargo jet&#8217;s wake.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 was instructed to perform a &#8220;go around&#8221; and subsequently landed safely, the FAA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faa.gov\/news\/press_releases\/news_story.cfm?newsId=12671\">said in a statement,<\/a> without naming Mrs Obama as a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is investigating the incident as a possible mistake by controllers at a regional radar facility in Warrenton, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential aircraft Air Force One and other government planes are based at Andrews. The air space around the military base is administered by the civilian FAA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13138759\" title=\"Michelle Obama's jet 'too close'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Obama&#8217;s jet &#8216;too close&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 April 2011 Last updated at 19:43 ET A plane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama had to abort a landing near Washington DC after an apparent air traffic controller&#8217;s error. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michelle Obama&#039;s jet &#039;too close&#039; - 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