Southwest flight comes within 200 feet of ambulance at Baltimore airport in another scary near-miss
A Southwest Airlines jet had a distressing close call with an ambulance which had crossed the same runway at a Baltimore airport, coming within 200 feet of the plane just as it was in its takeoff roll. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting, or ARFF, vehicle crossed Runway 15R at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on Jan. 12. An incident report said the ambulance crossed the runway without authorization from air traffic control. The vehicle was on ARFF Road and had been...