The FAA and NTSB are both going to start investigations at Chicago O’Hare International Airport over the high incidents of near misses at the airport, including 2 this past week.

Pilots aborted takeoffs on Tuesday and Thursday to avoid colliding with other aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said. No one was injured.

“Both incidents look to be air traffic controller errors,” FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said Friday.The National Transportation Safety Board, which typically responds to fatal accidents, also will investigate because the incidents were “major” enough, said spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi.

On Tuesday, two planes were mistakenly instructed to take off at the same time on crisscrossing runways. On Thursday, one plane was sent to taxi across a runway where another plane had already started its take-off roll.So far this year, four so-called “runway incursions,” not counting last week’s incidents, have occurred. All have been ruled controller errors.via kutv.com

Chicago O’Hare has too much traffic for air traffic control not to have complete control over the airspace. This is not a little rural airport.

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