The Nation - News from July 14, 1987

A Delta Air Lines passenger jet landed on the wrong runway at Boston’s Logan International Airport Sunday night, forcing an Eastern Airlines plane preparing to cross the runway to stop, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. The Delta and Eastern planes were at least several thousand feet apart, he said. It was the fourth recent incident involving Delta. Last week, a Delta flight passed just below a Continental Airlines flight over the Atlantic. Earlier, a plane dropped to within several hundred feet of the ocean after the pilot accidentally turned off the engines, and a flight landed at the wrong Kentucky airport.