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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...

Of transportation had been watching runway incursions very carefully over the last 10 to 20 years. because this is one statistic in aviation safety that's on the increase. a lot of other things in afb yags safety have improved dramatically over the last 20 years. but runway incursions have been rising. now to put it in perspective there are about 1700 of these every year on average. it goes up and down over time. and they've been inching upwards in statistics. but for the most serious one, they're called category a. there's less than a dozen of those, approximately, every year. and already in ...