profile incident of airliners getting too close. something that happens every day. in april, two planes nearly collided over the runway at newark airport. >> 4100. >> the controllers directed a united airlines boeing 737 to land. as a smaller express jet was cleared for takeoff on an intersecting runway. the larger plane is nearly out of control when hthey tell it t circumstan circle. the day after this incident, a boeing 757 flying over the pacific came too close to another aircraft. after climbing to the altitude the air traffic controllers