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>> [ bleep ]! >> cancel takeoff plans. delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. >> rejecting. >> air traffic uses radar, communication with pilots and relying on what they can see from the tower, at least when they can see. >> okay. now i'm stressed. >> the controller is not able to see the actual runway environment. >> fog and visibility were the conditions in austin, texas in february. a fedex plane was approaching to land as a southwest plane was supposed to have taken off from the same runway. with the weather, it would have been hard to visually confirm. >> by now southwest should be off the gre...

And austin, and a united 777 diving toward the ocean after takeoff for hawaii, for reasons the faa and united are keeping confidential. >> i'm asking if you have an answer today about why this occurred? >> no, ma'am. that investigation is still ongoing. >> reporter: now the faa is planning a safety review of the agency, including a summit with industry partners next month to game plan solutions, and then dig through flight data to find out if more of these incidents are happening. >> i say to the america public that we are safe. can we be better? absolutely. and that's what we're working on. >...

Continuing down the road. —— runway. in the austin event, it was a pilot of the fedex cargo aircraft that aborted landing and instructed celso is to abort for take—off. == is to abort for take-off. -- southwest. _ is to abort for take-off. -- southwest. i _ is to abort for take-off. -- southwest. i want - is to abort for take-off. -- southwest. i want to i is to abort for take—off. —— southwest. i want to play to people just how calm the pilots were. bear in mind they are looking at a computer. it's on autopilot, so you wouldn't necessarily be looking at the runway. just watch this...

Can be arrested if they don't comply, and especially if they have kids in the house. >> and you really feel for the firefighters who are having to go towards the smoke right now, and towards this potential explosion of all of that hazardous material. gabe cohen, thank you so much. so, we are now going to two planes that have narrowly collided in austin over the weekend -- >> southwest, abort. fedex on the go. >> yeah, so this, and it was really a near miss happening on saturday as a fedex cargo plane was forced to abort the landing as a southwest plane was cleared for take off. the faa and n...

How close they came to each other. gio benitez covers aviation for us. >> reporter: tonight, an urgent federal investigation under way at the austin airport after what fedex t over thend. cargo jet and a southwest airlines passenger plane. >> fedex 1432, you are cleared to land. >> reporter: air traffic control giving fedex permission to land and soon after giving the southwest plane permission to enter that same runway to cake off. >> confirm. >> rolling now. >> reporter: less than 30 seconds later. >> swetouthwest, abort. >> reporter: southwest forced to change course. the two planes coming ...