Year-over-year runway incursions at the highest-volume airports in the United States increased 3.2 percent, from 497 in fiscal 2016 to 513 in fiscal 2017, the most recent year for which final data are available, according to data from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).1
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