One American Airlines passenger jet was approaching Phoenix, and another had just taken off. Then the air traffic controller noticed something extraordinary: both Boeing 737s were using the exact same call sign—American 2482. If the air traffic controller hadn’t noticed the mistake in time, one of the instructions could have gone to the wrong pilot.
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One American Airlines passenger jet was approaching Phoenix, and another had just taken off. Then the air traffic controller noticed something extraordinary: both Boeing 737s were using the exact same call sign—American 2482. If the air traffic controller hadn’t noticed the mistake in time, one of the instructions could have gone to the wrong pilot.