NTSB Opening Investigation into Air Traffic Control Incident Involving Aircraft Carrying Michelle Obama

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 20, 2011.  The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into an air traffic control incident on Monday in which the airplane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama aborted a landing attempt at Andrews Air Force Base after an air traffic controller had sequenced it too close to another military plane.

At about 5 pm ET on April 18, the military version of a B-737 that Mrs. Obama was traveling in was directed…