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The Air Operations Area (“AOA”) of the airport runways and taxi ways can get crowded with luggage tugs, food trucks, fuel tankers and maintenance carts which require increased ground safety procedures according to airport injury lawyer Doug Landau of the Herndon firm ABRAMS LANDAU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the increased air traffic at, and around, the three DC Metro international airports, attention must be paid to the vehicular traffic on the “Airport Operation Area” (“AOA”) at Dulles, Reagan National and Baltimore Washington International Airports. Since the tragic events of 9\/11, there has been a marked increase in security for the “sterile areas” of our major air hubs. But there seems to be more vehicles on the runways, even with the phasing out of the midfield terminal busses in favor of underground trains at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)<\/a>\u00a0. Even Reagan National Airport, also run by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority<\/a>\u00a0with its limited hours of operation and airspace around the nation’s capitol and sensitive military areas (i.e., the Pentagon, the White House, etc.), appears to have more vehicles on the AOA. And up at BWI Airport – Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport<\/a>\u00a0because of the inexpensive fares, there is more ground traffic on both sides of the terminal.<\/p>\n

According to Abrams Landau clients, there are reported incidents, accidents and “near misses.” Though most passengers may not be aware of the hazards on the ground, such near misses are not isolated events. According to the New York Times<\/a>, since 2008, there have been “about three incidents a day in which a plane or a vehicle gets on an active runway by mistake, an average of 1,000 a year. That number has held steady for the last four years while the total number of flights has declined. The issue has festered even as regulators and the airline industry have made significant gains in reducing other major aviation hazards, especially those in flight. Advances in navigation technology in recent decades, for instance, have sharply reduced midair collisions and crashes into mountains and other obstacles, two of the most common causes of accidents. But a similar urgency to address runway safety has lagged, safety experts said. Only in the last year have all 35 major airports installed new ground radars that provide air-traffic controllers a better view of the runways, and a handful of airports are now testing a new system of warning lights on runways.”<\/p>\n

Airports, particularly major hubs, are busy places that can handle more than a hundred flights an hour, while thousands of fuel trucks, airline maintenance cushions, bag tugs, catering trucks, airfield security and many other vehicles crisscross the airfield. Plus there are airline maintenance crews, pilots performing pre-flight inspections and other airport employees helping jets get in and out of their gates. Most incidents involve jets, but there have also been cases where fire trucks, helicopters, animal control vehicles, police cars and even pedestrians, cross runways by mistake in recent years. If you or someone you know or care for has been injured as the result of an airport vehicle crash or other air travel related accident and there are questions about what laws apply, e-mail<\/a> or call us at ABRAMS LANDAU, Ltd. (703-796-9555) at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the increased air traffic at, and around, the three DC Metro international airports, attention must be paid to the vehicular traffic on the “Airport Operation Area” (“AOA”) at Dulles, Reagan National and Baltimore Washington International Airports. Since the tragic events of 9\/11, there has been a marked increase in security for the “sterile areas”…<\/p>\n

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