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Mexico to cut flights at main airport after near-miss on runway

A Volaris airplane prepares to land on the airstrip at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City, Mexico, May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

A Mexican official overseeing an investigation of an incident in which two aircraft nearly crashed on a runway at the country's main airport said on Monday operations at the over-stretched facility would be reduced by 25%.

A video of the Saturday near-miss at Mexico City International Airport showed one plane coming in to land just over another one waiting to take off on the same runway.

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