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In a statement, quote an air traffic controller instructed pilot of united flight 601 to make a right turn from runway 9. the controller then noticed that care craft was heading into runway left where united flight 137 just departed. the controller issued instructions to both pilots to safely separate the aircraft. according to houston station tv station that air traffic controller may have been in on the job training program but faa wouldnt confirm. you can hear the pilots talking about what ha...

Position who put the plane on this path and this evening the faa is investigating why it happened. an air traffic controller in training directs a united jet to turn, putting it on a possible collision course another plane departing houston bush intercontinental airport. seconds later according to the faa, the controller realizes his mistake. >> stop your climb. stop your turn united 60. >> reporter: the two flights each traveling more than 200 miles per hour less than a mile apart sending off c...

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>> hes real close. >> reporter: the rules of separation in the skies breached. the faas latest numbers show planes came too close nearly 4,400 times in one year. 41 of them deemed high-risk events. >> they are scary. theyre unacceptable. theyre worked on. but theres a backup system and people are safe. >> reporter: its an air traffic system under stress. increasing air traffic and a potential shortage of controllers. thousands more need to be hired and trained over the next seven years. some exp...

These incidents? >> well, in these incidents in every case, federal aviation separation regulations were broken there is the time between takeoffs and landings, a lateral separation and a vertical separation. and they were broken. so in each case where the regulations are broken, there should be consequences. there has to be. you cant have a total amnesty in the government for people who dont follow the rules. so one, there has to be consequences of behavior, retraining. we have to weed out the ...

Nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, you know what happened there? >> basically crossed directly over the top of each other. thats what it looks like from my perspective. i had no idea what was going on in the tower but it was pretty gnarly looking. >> it was supposed to be a left turn. >> this is the third incident in recent weeks where passenger pl...

Use user fees to have a steady stream of money, maybe we can upgrade our facilities quicker. >> trace, in the case of these near collisions, they were averted to your point earlier, but where is the communication snafu? what gets them that close? >> well, in both of the cases in new york and in houston d in newark and houston and im not familiar with hawaii -- it was an error that the controller made. the air traffic controller in one case directed a right turn when he should have directed a lef...

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Controller during the incident that is right now under investigation. >> stop your head. stop the turn right there. stop your turn. stop your climbing. stop your turn, 39601. >> id say thats tension and some real grace under fire. those planes were headed right towards each other. they were only about a mile apart which in airplane speak is about that much. they were in jet speeds that leaves almost no time to maneuver. heres cnns rene marsh. >> reporter: two more passenger planes get too close ...