In the south, the plane almost collided with a helicopter California airport Saturday, just a few days after The Federal Aviation Administration held a safety summit.

FAA employees said The Southwest flight was approaching the runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport around 9:50 a.m. Saturday when an air traffic controller noticed Los Angeles A fire service helicopter on the same runway.

According to the FAA statement, the helicopter was practicing a touch-and-go landing. Noticing the problem, the controller ordered the plane to stop.

No one was injured and the matter is currently under investigation by the FAA.

A similar situation occurred at Burbank Airport in February after a Mesa Airlines flight ordered to stop landing as the SkyWest plane was cleared to take off from the same runway. It was the fourth such incident in 2023.

A plane nearly collided with a helicopter at a Southern California airport on Saturday, just days after the Federal Aviation Administration held a safety summit

The Southwest flight was approaching the runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport around 9:50 a.m. Saturday, FAA officials said.

When the plane was about a mile away, air traffic controllers spotted a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter on the same runway

According to NBC 4 Los Angeles, the Boeing 737, a Southwest flight, was just a mile from the runway.

Noticing a serious safety problem, an air traffic controller ordered the helicopter to stay on the runway and ordered the Southwest pilot to “go around” and not land.

In a similar incident last month at the same airport in Southern California, an automatic alarm went off inside a Mesa Airlines plane as the planes tried to avoid a near-collision.

The February scare was reportedly a major factor in the FAA holding an impromptu safety summit to address the mounting concerns.

Just two weeks before the near miss in Burbank Alaska Airlines planes scraped their tails on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as they took off.

This was due to a software error that caused pilots to think their planes were 20,000 pounds lighter.

The problem was deemed serious enough for Alaska Airlines to immediately ground all planes nationwide. The Seattle Times.

At the time, a spokesperson for Alaska Airlines confirmed to DailyMail.com that the incident had indeed occurred and that the landing had lasted about 20 minutes.

“The tail impacts were caused by a vendor software update that incorrectly installed a code that resulted in inaccurate takeoff weight data for a small portion of our flights,” they said.

A few weeks earlier, a separate flight at JFK International Airport nearly saw a similar crash when a Delta jet narrowly nose-dived into the side of an American Airlines jet that crossed its runway.

The Boeing 737 was already traveling at 185 miles per hour when the air traffic controller noticed the impending crash.

The pilot of the Southwest Airlines flight was ordered to go around to avoid a collision

Air traffic controllers at Hollywood Burbank Airport ordered the helicopter to stay put

In a similar incident last month at the same airport in Southern California, an automatic alarm went off inside a Mesa Airlines plane as the planes tried to avoid a near-collision

A Mesa Airlines CRJ900 landed minutes after colliding with another plane in February

Air traffic control allowed the SkyWest plane to take off without a hitch after the crash

February’s near disaster occurred at Hollywood Burbank Airport (pictured).

Another incident is a close call took place on March 7 between a Republic Airways flight and a United Airlines plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The Republic flight overshot the runway and was on track to collide with the United plane, which had been cleared to take off.

This incident is also under investigation by the FAA at this time.

In an interview with NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt, FAA Administrator Billy Nolen said officials have begun “to see things we don’t expect to see.”

“We expect every flight to operate as it should,” Nolen said.

“And that’s why we’ve had events like this in the last few weeks. It gives us a moment to say, ‘Let’s stop. Let’s reflect. Let’s ask ourselves, are we missing something?”’ he said.

Nolen said more people are flying and more planes are in the air because of “latent demand for flights.”

“The flights are back with a vengeance, so to speak,” Nolen said.

Talking to NBC 4 Los Angelesretired commercial pilot and aviation expert Ross “Rusty” Eimer echoed Nolen’s statements.

“Airlines are increasing flights as much as possible. Everything is up in the air, said Eimer.

Despite a number of close calls, Eimer says people in general shouldn’t panic.

“But the system is safe,” Eimer said. “The system is working.”

Miracle on the Hudson pilot Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who now works as an aviation safety expert, said close calls at U.S. airports are canaries in the coal mine.’

“We’ve lost a lot of our flights and the recovery from COVID has been faster than a lot of people expected, so we’ve been caught in a lot of important ways and in terms of staffing,” Sullenberger told the Today Show.

Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, now an aviation security expert, said close calls at U.S. airports “are the canaries in the coal mine.”

JFK, JANUARY 13: There was panic at JFK in New York when a Delta jet was forced to abort takeoff after a near-collision with an American Airlines jet. An air traffic controller could be heard yelling “Holy shit!” when he noticed an American plane crossing a nearby taxiway, he ordered the other plane, “Delta 1943 cancel clearance!”

In January, a flight at JFK International Airport nearly saw a similar crash as a Delta plane nearly crashed nose-first into the side of an American Airlines plane who moved onto his runway.

The Boeing 737 was already traveling at 185 miles per hour when the air traffic controller noticed the impending crash.

The Delta pilot was forced to slam on the brakes, flying another 661 feet before coming to a complete stop with just 1,000 feet remaining before the plane slammed into the American Airlines Boeing 777.

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The close calls join a growing list of fiascos in the nation’s aviation industry that have led to an upcoming federal review of the nation’s aerospace system.

Last year, the number of “runway departures” reached 1,633, according to the FAA.

Runway trespassing is any time an aircraft, vehicle, or person is improperly in a protected area during takeoff or landing.

The frightening number of close calls has risen from 1,397 in 2012, while only 987 cases were reported in 2002.