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recent incidents including flights being clear to use the same runway at the very same time should be a wake up call. as you pointed out, there was a summit and it comes as federal officials say they are investigating six, six runway incursions this year alone. among the ongoing probes, what went wrong during the incident that happened just eight days ago, when a regional jet crossed the runway at d.c. reagan national airport without clearance, putting a dangerous close which a plane had been cleared to take off. reporting take off in 2003. scary stuff. air traffic controllers were able to catch the error just in time and the united flight as you heard there was able to abort the take-off. no one was injured, fortunately. officials argued the nation s
over safety. reporter: the federal reserve aviation administration hosted a rare safety summit bringing together investigators and regulators including pete buttigieg. when you have this many things happening at once, it points to the need to make sure the whole system is strengthened. reporter: near collisions continued to climb nationwide from hawaii to the latest incident at reagan national airport outside washington, d.c. the faa is investigating a total of seven dramatic runway incursions since the start of this year. buttigieg told me that there is an uptick in incidents at airports. what we re finding is that pilots, ground rules and controllers alike seem to be experiencing this uptick, some have described it as a kind of rust. that needs to turn into a very concrete diagnosis and specific action steps. reporter: airlines insist safety is always their top
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are so alarming. surely they could put in motion these solutions now and get something done quickly because it is not only equipment, it is also more staff. equipment, more staff, and really at some airports, particular in the united states, some of them are very old and they have a configuration where runways and taxiways intersect and they have intersected. in fact there are many airports in the u.s., there is an old configuration where the runways cross, and that was a configuration, literally before the second world war. and there is not much that can be done about that, because the airports now are hampton with traffic. so in the short term, because we have seen a massive ramp up of aviation demand, and the system is congested, it is very crowded right now because of the demand, literally at these different called airports, or at the airport hotspots, where runway incursions and maher