FAA suspends operation that led to near-collision

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/faa-suspends-operation-that-led-to-near-collision/2012/08/07/224d2f32-e0a7-11e1-8d48-2b1243f34c85_story.html

The Federal Aviation Administration will bar airports nationwide from using a traffic-reversing operation that led to a close call last week at an airport near the nation’s capital.

No commercial airports will be able to use the maneuver, in which controllers direct some planes to take off and land from the opposite of the usual direction, until a standardized procedure can be put in place, aviation officials said. There is no national standard for the maneuver, although airports follow their own procedures.