{"id":406778,"date":"2026-04-16T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-pilot-brakes-clt-truck\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:11:16","slug":"we-nearly-hit-them-american-airlines-pilot-slams-brakes-to-avoid-clt-ops-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=406778","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Nearly Hit Them&#8221;: American Airlines Pilot Slams Brakes To Avoid CLT Ops Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another concerning near-miss incident has taken place at a major US airport, this time involving an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> jet and a truck at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259743\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/charlotte-douglas-international-airport\/\"  >Charlotte Douglas International Airport<\/a><\/span> (CLT). It occurred on Wednesday morning as the American aircraft was taxiing, forcing the pilots to slam the brakes to avoid hitting the airport operations truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest near-miss intensifies scrutiny over airport safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,637,3296,10181,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-charlotte-douglas-international-airport","category-ground-operations","category-near-miss","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406779,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406778\/revisions\/406779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}