The National Transportation Safety Board has released its 2013 Most Wanted List, with "Improve Safety of Airport Surface Operations" and "Improve General Aviation Safety" as two of its top 10 issues. Regarding airport surface operations, the safety board said that, "Although pilots are statistically at fault in over 62 percent of runway incursions, according to most recent statistics, air traffic controllers and ground operations staff also play a critical role in ensuring safe airport surface area operations.
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