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Rolled on to a runway in the path of a eunited jet about to take off this was not an isolated incident there's been more than 600 runway incursion incidents this year gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: with spring break travel season underway, they are drilling down what's going on and it comes as the faa is now investigating another incident, a near collision right here at reagan national. a plane dropping within 800 feet of the pacific ocean to more than half a dozen collisions, the aviation industry facing scrutiny and hit ting the pause button the acting administrator is holding an air ...

Participants about what they are seeing in their ow operations and more importance, i wan specific ideas about how t enhance our already robust safety net with concrete actions. >> the pressing question, ar these a string of coincidences or is there an ongoing safet issue that needs to be addressed now? tsv chief, jennifer homendy. >> we really need to focus o butz going on in the aviatio system let's take a pause let's do a safety stand down and let's figure out, what are we missing here? >> all right, we talked abou that six runway incursion, w are now learning this was in sarasota the ntsb ...

Boston logan international airport where for he is was arrested. united airlines says torres has been banned from future flights on the carrier. he is detained right now pending a hearing before a judge on thursday. don. >> so you had this. we are learning of a new runway incursion under investigation this morning. the sixth recorded this year. what do you know? >> reporter: well, this we are learning about. it happened february 16th according to the ntsb. but its investigating as the planes were on the runway near the same time. american airlines flight cleared to land on the runway at saraso...

New york. this is all taking place as president biden's nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on his plate? >> reporter: yeah, no permanent leader at the faa, bianna. that's an issue because there's issue after issue facing the information. go back to earlier this year when a day-wide ground stop at america's airports then the issues at southwest airlines that caused cancellations and delays in the thousands. and now these is...

Began taxiing on to the runway ahead. an air traffic controller in the tower urgently noticed the problem. >> [ bleep ] delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. >> the delta crew slammed on the brakes. something typically only practiced in flight simulators like this one. >> the captain came on and explained that air traffic control had told him to abort the takeoff because there was another aircraft on the runway. i didn't really sink in how serious a near miss this was. >> it is the latest example of a top concern for aviation regulators known as a runway incursion...