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Anderson Cooper 360-20140524-00:26:00

collision course with another plane departing houston bush intercontinental airport. the two planes take off at roughly the same time, united flight 601 turns right as directed and is now in the path of the other plane. within seconds, according to the faa, the controller realizes his mistake. >> 601, stop the turn right there, sir, stop your turn, stop your turn, flight 601. >> the two planes came within a mile of each other, at takeoff speed that means they were mere seconds from possible impact, passengers from both flight might not have been aware of the near disaster, but the pilots were stunned. >> hey, 601, you know what happen there had? >> yeah, basically crossed over the top of each other. that is what it looks like from my perspective. i have no idea what was going on in the tower, but it was pretty gnarly looking. >> this is yet another high

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-14:28:00

close in the skies and this morning we know the faa is now investigating. >> 601, a right turn. two more passenger planes get too close in the skies. on may 9th, united flight 601 and united 437 took off from bush intercontinental airport in houston at roughly the same time. shortly after takeoff, flight 601 is told to turn right putting it in the path of the other plane. moments later, the controller seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop the turn right there, sir. stop your turn. stop your climb. stop your turn 601. >> reporter: the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, you know what happened there? >> basically crossed directly

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New Day-20140523-10:01:00

in the path of the other plane. moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop the turn right there, sir the. stop your turn. stop your climb and stop your turn. >> reporter: the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, you know what happened there? >> basely over the top of each other. >> that's what it looked like from my perspective. i have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. >> reporter: this was the third incident with where where passenger planes got too close for comfort. a similar incident over newark airport and another over the pacific ocean near hawaii all involving passenger planes. all right, well, again the faa

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Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield-20140523-16:36:00

seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop your heading, stop the turn right there. stop your turn. stop your climb and stop your turn. >> the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, you know what happened there? >> basically crossinged directly over the top of each other. >> that's what it looked like. i had no idea what was going on in the tower. it was pretty narly looki looki >> reporter: this is the third incident in recent weeks where two planes got too close for comfort. all involving passenger planes. >> cnn's rene marsh reporting for us. there were 4,400 close calls in the air in 2012. if you do the math, that's more

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-18:51:00

nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, you know what happened there? >> basically crossed directly over the top of each other. that's what it looks like from my perspective. i had no idea what was going on in the tower but it was pretty gnarly looking. >> it was supposed to be a left turn. >> this is the third incident in recent weeks where passenger planes got too close for comfort. all involving passenger planes. >> don, the faa tells us the controller involved was in training. he realized the mistake immediately and corrected the plane's course. we should note there was a trainer who would have stepped in if needed. for the big picture we looked at faa's latest numbers and we

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-18:50:00

my perspective. i had no idea what happened. it was gnarly looking. >> a left turn. >> renae marsh is our aviation correspondent. >> don, it has happened again. two planes with passengers on board get too close in the skies and we now know the faa is investigating. >> turn right. right turn. >> two more passenger planes get too close in the skies. on may 9, united flight 601 and united 437 took off from bush international airport in houston at roughly the same time. shortly after take-off, flight 601 is told to turn right, putting it in the path of the other plane. moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop the turn right there, sir. united 601, stop your climbing, stop your turn. >> the two planes came within

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-13:05:00

violation of federal air regulations. this is what's called an operational error. that means the air traffic controller made a mistake. they're supposed to be three miles apart. depending upon the phase of the flight, 2,000 feet or more. so this was very, very close. >> david, i know newark airport changed its rules regarding runway use for takeoffs and landings. does every airport need to do this? >> there's a lot of things that had to do with newark airport, including the closure of one of the airports themselves. when you look at how to change that and where it goes, it changes the operational parameters of the airport itself. as mary said, this is an operational error. you look at how they go and how they set up for changes, not only their standard procedures but when things change, how they adapt to those changes. i think that's more important right now. >> the most concerning thing to me, mary -- and i want to go back to the chatter between the pilots, they were trying to figure out what went wrong in

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-13:03:00

>> 601, turn right, right turn. >> reporter: two more passenger planes get too close in the skies. on may 9th, united flight 601 and united flight 437 took off from bush enter continental airport in houston at roughly the same time. shortly after takeoff flight 601 is told to turn right, putting it in the path of the other plane. moments later the controller seems to realize the mistake. >> 601, stop your heading, stop your turn right there. united 601, stop your turn, stop your climb and stop your turn united 601. >> the two planes came within nearly a mile of each other. the roughly 300 passengers on both flights may not have been aware of the close call, but the pilots were left with questions as to what went wrong. >> 601, do you know what happened there? >> y'all basically crossed directly over the top of each other. that's what it looked like from

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-19:35:00

i had noed in what was going on. it was narly looking. you could tell there was urgency there. the faa says the controller involved was in training and recognized his mistake in telling one of the planes to turn right instead of left. there was also a trainer standing by to jump in if needed. so joining me now, senior aviation analyst, the fourth incident in rekren weeks. is it too many planes? human ror? >> you are sitting there in your seat and you listen to the traffic controller get all panicked. turn turn turn. i fly small planes just for fun. the whole point is to be calm, cool, and collected. when you hear that kind of tone in a controller's voice, it is

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CNN Newsroom-20140523-14:47:00

>> some of this is the system and just changing people at the top may appear to represent change but it's the culture, it's the system, and it's the challenge that they face. >> this isn't about one person. this isn't about the secretary. it's about the entire system underneath him. and the general can leave and we can wait around for months to go through a nomination process and we get a new person but the disaster continues. >> complicated situation. i want to bring in tom foreman to help us parse this out. tom, the delays facing the va patients have been disgraceful and dishonorable. you found the agency has tried to remedy some long standing issues so tell us about that. >> reporter: you hit the word right there, carol. long standing. there's no mistake about this.

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