Separation Requirement News Today

morning following a major computer outage at the faa. >> john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to todays confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they dont know if hackers were to blame. >> sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? its scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. ...

Pilot on the right to go to the right and on the left to go to the left. the conclusion of the british investigators was that each pilot did what the other pilot was instructed to do, and the planes turned toward each other. >> at their closest point, the two planes were about three miles apart hernandezly and 100 feet vertically. thats under the minimum separation requirement. >> we have the several layers of protection and we got down to some of the last ones. the pilot saw the other airplane ...

In this particular area where they were, its about five miles horizontally and a thousand feet vertically. so you see quite a difference there. 1,000 feet vertically versus what they actually -- what their distance actually was, which was 100 feet. so that was well under what was considered the minimum separation requirement, suzanne. >> can only imagine what the passengers were thinking when this he saw the plane so close. renee, appreciate it as always. heres more of what were working on. ther...