Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. Its friday, may 23rd, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking overnight, word of another frightening near collision at one of the nations busiest airports. The faa is now investigating how two United Airlines jets came within a few hundred feet of each other. That is very close. After both took off from houstons bush intercontinental airport. This happened two weeks ago. An air Traffic Controller told one plane to turn right, directly into the path of the other. They were about 0. 9 miles apart and seconds away from colliding when the controller realized the error and told the planes to turn again, avoiding disaster. This is the fourth near collision weve learned about just this week. All right, embattled va secretary Eric Shinseki is fighting to keep his job, vowing to fix delays in care that may be costing veterans their lives. It would be an uphill battle for the beleaguered exgeneral because now some highprofile de
Planes to turn again, avoiding, narrowly avoiding disaster. Listen to what it sounded like. United 437, turn right heading 180 and maintain 300 there. Turn right immediately. United 601, stop your turn, climb, stop your turn for united 601. The fourth weve learned about just this week. Stop your turn, stop your turn. Embattled va secretary Eric Shinseki fighting to keep his job and promised to fix delays in care that may be costing veterans their lives. It could be a tough battle for the beleaguered exgeneral because some highprofile democrats now are demanding that he step down. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash. Reporter christine and john, va secretary Eric Shinseki was summoned to a closeddoor meeting on capitol hill yesterday afternoon, not to meet with a republican, but a frustrated democrat. And afterwards, shinseki told reporters that he has not offered the president his resignation. He said, you guys know me better than that. But his remaining support is tenuou
And at the Berlin International Film Festival a film tells a story of a same sex marriage in spain one hundred years before it was legalized but its caused controversy because its produced by netflix. Im suing so misconducts good to have you with us air bus is a pulling the plug on its largest plane the a three eighty it was supposed to revolutionize air travel but it never really took off it is a plane that was beloved by pilots and passengers but in the end it just didnt have enough orders from Airline Customers now the a three eighty represents a more than twenty billion dollars in Development Costs its the Worlds Largest passenger aircraft a double decker with a wingspan of almost eighty meters room for eight hundred fifty passengers and a range of. Almost sixteen thousand kilometers enough to cover virtually any connection on earth without refueling as impressive as it sounds only eighteen airlines found that the a three eighty was actually worth the investment of the major custom
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