until then, i ll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. all right. the top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good afternoon, everyone, i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. we re beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here s what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in new york. this is all taking place as president biden s nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn t exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on hi
most likely they ll limit traffic in some of these airports that keep having them. and, by the way, there s a bad call with this, it s official with the faa, they re called hot spots. that s what they re going to have to do. they re going to have to find a way to get the heat off the hot spots. so, that s interesting, you say they have to do something. these could be, this category a, as you call them, this could be just consequential human error. but does it suggest that there s some technical deficit? t of traffic? no, there s it s a combination here. you make a very good point tse , for example, at jfk, there s been construction going on. and boston, boston has a hot spot alert for several of these runways because you have intersecting runways and taxiways. it s curious that the fellow there is coming from denver. because denver was built
out of fuel for his jet ski in waters near the airport. he climbed a fence, and walked across two intersecting runways before anyone spotted him. since the december 13th breach, we are told port authority is reviewing its perimeter security measures. congressman tells us that police were very delayed in getting on the scene. that, too, is under investigation. as for that surveillance video, we are told no clear shot of the man s face, you only see him as he s jumping over that fence. the kind of news you want to hear before the holiday travel season. they stuck the landing, after two failed attempts. elon musk s spacex launched the falcon 9 reusable rocket into space and brought it back, and landed it, upright. the pictures are almost unbelievable. it as if you re watching the launch in reverse. the upper stage of the rocket delivered 11 satellites to orbit
is that the person was able to get away. reporter: congressman gregory meeks district includes jfk airport. he was briefed today. jfk has sensors in some of its fencing but not all. it has gaps, and that s where this man climbed over. we don t know whether or not they were there casing the airport, whether they were testing security, what the purpose was. and it would seem to me that that person then had some idea if they got away of weak points. reporter: breaches in airport perimeter security happen more often than people may realize. in 2011, tsa told congress there were about 2,500 security breaches at airports annually. that includes perimeter breaches. this past august at jfk, a man ran out of fuel for his jet ski in the waters near the airport. he climbed a fence and walked across two intersecting runways before anyone spotted him.
another man s home, shot and killed that man in front of her and four children. he then handcuffed and beat the woman, raped her and got into a shootout with a state trooper. he later escaped from jail, went to the home of his ex-girlfriend s mother and beat her with a hammer before she escaped and then he was later on arrested. gretchen? garrett, thank you so much. two planes at newark airport in new jersey almost collide. now the faa making big changes to flights in and out of that major airport. as we reported here yesterday, those two planes, one taking off and one landing, they missed each other by just 50 feet. the distance between planes is supposed to be two miles. now, according to the new rules, any aircraft taking off and landing simultaneously will no longer be able to use intersecting runways. presidential elections in ukraine five days away. pro-russian thugs are targeting.