US FAA acting administrator Bobby Sturgell says the agency and industry will review runway safety issues at 22 additional airports over the next four months, complementing the 20 airports that have been reviewed since August as part of the agency’s runway safety “call to action”.

Eighteen of the 20 airports already reviewed were commercial service airports, none of which have recorded a serious runway incursion this fiscal year, says US FAA acting administrator Bobby Sturgell.

The FAA defines serious incursions - Category A and Category B incursions - as those in which a collision is “narrowly avoided” or in which separation decreases and there is “a significant potential for collision”.

While the year is far from over, Sturgell notes that eight of the 24 serious incursions recorded last year took place at those 18 airports.

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