between pilots and air traffic control. you can move up shortly. hold short. 262. hold short. very good. and why is that so critical when it comes to runway incursions? first off, confirm it was heard. confirm you got the correct runway. those are the big ones right there. confirmation and communication are key. this executive airport lax some of the technology the faa is deploying at busier airports nationwide. warning lights imbedded in the taxiways and runway that can track vehicles on the ground. i ve got the airport in sight. we are at dallas international airport with four runways. three of them are parallel to each other. even though we re landing in clear weather, bill dialed in a radio beacon to point us at the proper runway. i m approaching the airport and
recent near collisions they haven t had the cockpit voice recorder to study what went on and there is equipment and the eu, european union is working on making this mandatory but there is equipment and it s readily available where it can give some of those alerts in the cockpit that pete mentioned in his piece where it would actually alert the pilot instantly if they re headed to collision, if they re on the wrong taxiway, lined up for different possibilities of collision with others, and that equipment is available. that technology is there. but it s not required in most places, and that would be life saving. right now the alerts, you depend upon the air traffic controllers and finally, if we are having a problem with the runway incursions, the faa is the only one that can do this, we have to require the air traffic controller eyes be on all aspects of the operation because some of these happen when the controller turns away to do something else.
the faa has a statistic that says that 87% of these runway incursions are caused by human error, usually confusion, usually a communication error. so if the faa has done all they can do, put out warnings, et cetera and we still cannot get this dangerous number down we re going to have to increase separation and spread out some of the traffic to the other 414 airports rather than concentrate it in so many airports. that is going to have to happen if they cannot find another way to get these runway incursions down. it s a disaster in the coming. yeah. the washington post had an article this week in which some industry insiders pointed the finger at newly hired workers trained during the pandemic when the skies were relatively calmer and they re only learning now how to deal with real world flying conditions. is there something to that? that was i will say at the summit that was discussed. they said a couple of factors is
slamming onto each other on the runway in 1977. bill and i met at flight school aviation adventures in virginia. here, student pilots are taught about runway incursions almost immediately in their training. in the pilot seat, bill and i are setting out on a demonstration of what goes into a runway incursion and what keeps pilots from making mistakes that could be deadly. there are a lot of layers built in to prevent even when something does go wrong from it becoming catastrophic. five cameras are rolling to show some solutions are as simple as markings on taxiways that lead to runways. the yellow hold short line reminds pilots not to enter a ru runway. move up to the hold short line. hold short, sky ventures 262. very good.
land. thankfully, the american airlines pilot was able to pull back from the landing after spotting the air canada plane taking off. this incident is just 1 of 7 runway incursions that have been taken place this year alone. so how do pilots navigate runway close calls? here s cnn s pete muntean. reporter: on any given day in the united states, airlines operate 45,000 commercial flights, taking off, landing and taxiing at some of the busiest airports in the world, delivering millions of passengers precisely and safely. it can be a delicate dance. one mistake can bring it all to a halt. runway incursions have been around since we ve had more than one runway. reporter: former ntsb bill english recalls two boeing 747s