Northwest Flight 1482 and Flight 299: A Collision in the Fog That Never Should Have Happened

Dense fog had settled over Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) on the afternoon of 3 December 1990.  The visibility was dropping by the minute, and the airport surface had become a maze of blurred centerlines, indistinct taxiway edges, and half-invisible signage. Inside that haze, two Northwest Airlines jets found themselves on the same runway […]

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