the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. the faa is holding an urgent air safety summit today after a string of dangerous close calls in the sky and on the ground more than 600 incidents in fiscal year 2023, including a passenger plane going off a taxiway until syracuse this week and a near collision at reagan national airport in washington last week, that we just learned about today. when a regional jet rolled in front of a departing united airbus jet united 2003, cancel aborting takeoff. aborting takeout, united 2003.
do you remember all the intelligence they got out of that iranian drone that we were able to that was down. how did they find the u.s. components, et cetera. you can get a lot from these things. the russian ambassador and the russian spokesperson is comparing this. he said it s apples to oranges. he said flying over, you know, the pacific or the atlantic is the equivalent of flying over the black sea. not the same thing. also russia claims they re not at war in ukraine too. exactly. there s that. also this morning, we re tracking another close call on an airport runway. it is under investigation for this 2003. aborting takeoff. aborting takeoff 2003. it feels like we re seeing these every day. what is happening? the federal aviation officials are hoping to figure that out. there is a hearing on capitol hill. can help your business get a payroll tax refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes to qualify. i went on their websbsite, uploaded everything,
inoperable, even if it is recovered by the russians. david? all right, martha raddatz, thank you. meantime, here in the u.s., we re learning about yet another close call at a u.s. airport. at least seven incidents so far this year, and this time, a united flight forced to abort takeoff from reagan national airport. tonight right here, you will hear air traffic controllers urging that cockpit to halt takeoff. so, what happened on that runway? and it all comes just as the faa held a safety summit today. here s gio benitez again tonight. reporter: tonight, after a string of recent near-collisions involving commercial jets, another close call reported at reagan national airport. an air traffic controller warning a united pilot not to take off. united 2003, cancel takeoff clearance. aborting takeoff. aborting takeoff. reporter: the faa says on march 7th, a republic airways flight crossed a runway without clearance as the united airlines flight was preparing to take off on the sa
aborting takeoff. another incident where it was a close call the ntsb says the number of so-called runway incursions that s a category it can be just a vehicle or aircraft in the wrong place. not all are that serious however, the ntsb says they hav been on the rise that is part of the reason why the faa decided to call this rare summit today to try to get a handle on what is going on is it because of the volume of air traffic that s a question that they are looking at demand is extremely high, as you know, since demand increased since the covid pandemic the question is, is that stressing the system just too
safety summit in 14 years. i think i speak for all of us when i say that i m certainly the traveling public, these events are concerning. reporter: the most recent close call it washington reagan last week when a regional jet taxied across a runway another plane was about to take off on. aborting takeoff, boarding takeoff. these recent incidents must serve as a wake-up call for every single one of us. before something more catastrophic occurs. reporter: national transportation safety board chair jennifer homendy. we are coming out of the pandemic. we are experiencing a time where we have a lot of new staffing and that requires training. for these incidents. reporter: is the system stretched to its limits? it could be. certainly it is a concern. reporter: other concerns include increasing faa funding at the need for more air traffic controllers. the miracle on the hudson pilot captor sully sullenberger.