until then, i ll send it back to you, guys, from the bottom of the world. all right. the top of the hour on cnn newsroom, good afternoon, everyone, i m bianna golodryga. i m victor blackwell. we re beginning with another dangerous close call involving a commercial airliner on a u.s. runway. the faa is now investigating. so here s what happened, monday night in boston logan airport, a jetblue flight and a private jet reportedly came within 565 feet of colliding. just a weeking in burbank, california, a mesa airlines had to abort its landing because a southwest flight was on the same runway. there was a close call between a fedex carg honolulu. days before that, aiines flightt of a delta flight at jfk in 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 hi
people as we talk about these disasters waiting to happen that we re far safer on a plane than we are in a car and other modes of transportation. and in talking about these category as. something i learned from you, mary. thank you. let s talk about phil washington, the president s nominee to lead the faa, confirmation hearing today. a ceo at denver airport, you talked about that. not much aviation experience before 2021. does he need that? is he a good fit for the faa? what do you think? well, i agree with his statement that they have to do something different and they have to do it you know, they have to look for new technologies and they have to do something better and new than what they re doing, ahead of the wrong direction. however, having spent so long in the department of transportation and trying to oversee an audit of the federal aviation administration, the powers that be there, the entrenched bureaucracy, will tend to eat him alive if he s not a pilot.