The Nation - News from Nov. 24, 1985

Air traffic controllers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport allowed airliners to fly closer to each other than regulations allow five times in the last week, the Federal Aviation Administration said. FAA spokesman Mort Edelstein said the jetliners are required to keep a lateral distance of five miles between them, and in the O’Hare incidents, planes remained more than four miles but less than five miles apart. He said the FAA is investigating but the deviations are regarded as minor errors.