The Safety Board has issued numerous safety recommendations to the FAA since 1973 to prevent runway incursions and other airport surface incidents. On May 6, 1986, the Board issued a Special Investigation Report, titled “Runway Incursions at Controlled Airports in the United States. In this report, the Board noted that the number of reported near-collision ground incidents had increased significantly and made several new safety recommendations to reduce the frequency of runway incursions. Several of these safety recommendations remained open when a fatal runway collision involving Eastern Airlines flight 111 (EAL111), a Boeing 727 (727), and N44UE, a Beechcraft King Air A100, occurred at Atlanta, Georgia, on January 18, 1990. As a result, the Board placed airport runway incursions on its 1990 Most Wanted Transportation Safety improvements List, and the issue has remained on the list every year since then. Five fatal runway collisions have occurred since the EAL111/N44UE collision in 1990, killing a total of 62 people.