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interviewing the people involved. we will get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: lahood said a big part of the investigation will not be just the incident, but why the faa found out about it for the first time from a news reporter. >> that's something they've got to figure out. thank you. secretary lahood went out of his way to compliment the air traffic controller who helped avert near disaster in the sky, but imagine being on the other end piloting the plane responsible for dozens and dozens of lives. kristin fisher spoke with a former pilot to get his perspective and she joins ...

danger. this incident happened tuesday at reagan national airport. that's where we find chris gordon live with the latest on this story. chris? >> reporter: the three planes were never on a collision course to hit head on according to transportation secretary ray lahood, traffic controllers had to redirect planes because of bad weather south of the airport. one u.s. airways commuter flight approaching from rosalind for a landing came close to the flight path of two commuter flights that had taken off heading toward rosalind. >> there was a loss of separation. it shouldn't have happen...

u.s. airways commuter planes were taking off from reagan national at the same time and same general direction as a third u.s. airways commuter plane that was about to land. >> the controller just told 3329 to turn south. we see something developing there. >> reporter: according to the head of the faa, when an air traffic controller at reagan national saw one of the departing planes was within a mile of the plane about to land, she immediately directed the landing plane to change course and head due south and all the planes continued on their way without incident. >> 3395, continue ho...

>> the faa has launched a full investigation and we are interviewing the people involved. we will get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: lahood said one of the things they want to figure out is why the faa found out about the incident for the very first time from a news reporter. matt jablow, 9 news now. >> that's just one of the questions we've got. what we really want to know is how dangerous was the situation and is there an intrinsic problem with our air traffic control system? mark weiss is here with us to give us insight, a retired american ail pilot and aviation and homeland ...

the man who robbed and killed an arlington jeweler this weekend, we're learning that that suspect may have robbed a d.c. jewelry store 7 weeks ago. tonight, the victim of that robbery says he is lucky to be alive. >> matt jablow joins us live in downtown washington with details. matt? >> reporter: anita, seven weeks ago, ken stein was staring down the barrel of a gun at a robbery at his d.c. jewelry store. tonight in light of what happened in arlington, stein said it's extremely lucky that he wasn't killed. >> on sunday, i called arlington county. >> reporter: ken stein says he was d...