Accidents
Chain of events led to midair over California
The long-delayed NTSB factual report on the Oct.

The long-delayed NTSB factual report on the Oct. 17, 2000, midair collision over Southern California’s San Fernando Valley not only states objectively what happened but indicates how accidents more often result from a chain of events and circumstances than from a single cause.

On that Tuesday at 3:51 p.m., Gulfstream III N162JC and King Air C90 N1801B briefly occupied the same piece of airspace 2.5 nm north of Van Nuys Airport (VNY) after the Gulfstream had been cleared to land on Runway 16R, and the King Air had been cleared for a straight-in approach to the same runway.

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