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Planes black box may go silent in a matter of a few days. trace gallagher is in los angeles with a look at the new technology the search. first our correspondent, lea gabrielle is here. a former pilot and certified commercial pilot. these documentses dont show a lot. >> what they show what appears to be a very normal conversation between the airlinerarting with them getting their route clearance, then switching to ground controllers at the airport, eventually to the airborne traffic controller a...

Looks out on the bridge. i see the tolls, the traffic going to and from and it was just at a standstill. there were cars every where. i had never seen anything like it. i felt the traffic controller because people were calling me, customers along with, you know, people i know who work in the city to ask me what is the traffic looking like and i had to tell them it was at a standstill, nothing is moving. so a lot of my customers -- >> did you lose money? >> absolutely. i was going say a lot of my...

And joins us with the details. this is scary stuff, rene. >> it certainly is. its not what you want to hear when youre a passenger on a plane and tonight we know exactly how it happened. 2,000 feet above queens, new york, a dangerously close call in one of the countrys busiest airspaces. >> 172, turn left now. >> a delta jumbo jet nearly collides with a delta regional aircraft. the planes a half a mile apart horizontally. theyre required to be at least three miles apart. windy conditions set off...

Regional traffic controller and they came too close to each other, 1.5 miles or 800 feet vertical separation. its still well within the comfort zone and the faa says these two planes were too close but they were heading in a somewhat different direction so we are not in immediate danger of colliding. the faa put out a statement and we can put it on the screen and here it is. the switching of operations, miscommunication led to a loss of the required separation between two regional jets and the f...

Hmm. some even working overtime at taxpayer expense for this. were live with the breaking news and the fallout from the missing iphone. the parade of ships on the hudson river, some live pictures for you now, all part of fleet week kicking off right here in new york city. jon: some new information about a possible flair fired into the sky feet from a us airways plane getting ready to land at philadelphia international airport. rick folbaum has details on that mystery. >> reporter: jon, youre a...

a sad story out of chardon, ohio, were expecting probably about an hour and a half or so because of of course, an hour behind us, students are going to start returning to classes there. dons tons of grief to deal with and post traumatic stress. first time since mondays shooting that those students will all be coming together. alleged shooter, t.j. lane, now charged with three counts of aggravated murder. hes charged as a juvenile but theyre expecting that he will be prosecuted as an ad...

Outrage and uproar certainly helped to focus minds in the system. i am not sure that the solution of adding more people. there are cases of people falling asleep on the job and there are more than one traffic controller there already. technology does exist in low peak hour to expand it and lay them from one tower or another doesnt have to be at the airport . there are 170 airports that dont have air traffic controller and do have commercial operations on a regular basis. the system is frankly ou...

Enthusiastic about flying? mary skiavo is a former inspector general with the department of transportation. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> what do you suppose happened here? >> well, i think probably what happened is there was lone air traffic controller on duty and he fell asleep. when i was inspector general i had investigated several incidents like this where the traffic controller had fallen asleep but not in washington, d.c. i remember i had one in the midwest where the controll...

Thing because jfk is like a fish bowl. and -- >> youre bound to get busted. you can get busted easily. >> well, unfortunately, the d.o.t. and the faa is involved in aviation safety, true, but whether theyd like to admit it or not, theyre also involved in public perception. and while they have to take a hard stance on this because of the publicity of it, theyre perpetuating hysteria, in my mind. they should really get to some safety issues rather than being concentrating on this. this is a noneve...