PEREIRA: Welcome back. A couple of really close calls in the skies. Check out some scary video of a flight landing in Barcelona. It had to pull up at the last second to avoid colliding with a plane on the runway. Through there is a long telephoto lens on that, so it's a little further away, yet still.</s>BERMAN: Still had to abort the landing there. And in Houston, over the weekend, two planes came closer than considered safe. A Singapore Airlines flight took off and didn't level off as required getting too close to an inbound Delta flight. L et's talk about this, because it seems like it's happening more and more.</s>PEREIRA: We have been talking about it a lot at this hour.</s>BERMAN: David Soucie is CNN safety analyst and former FAA inspector. David, generally speaking whose responsibility is this? Is this an air traffic control's issue? Are they just missing something here?</s>DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST: There are two issues going on here. The last person who could have avoided this from happening was the flight crew in the ground aircraft who is responsible to look up in the air to look to see if there is any aircraft approaching before they cross the runway. Regardless of whether the air traffic controllers tell them to cross the runway or not. And the secondarily the aircraft controller should have made a warning and said, look you need to stop and hold short of that runway before they did. David we've heard, over the last few years, about staffing of the air traffic control towers and the staffing issues going on there. A lot of the older more experienced controllers with years of experience retiring and bringing in new blood and new controllers. Could there be a disconnect on how those people are being trained and/or their own inexperience?</s>SOUCIE: Well both of the those things actually, Michaela. One is the fact that Patco, if you remember way back when they had the strike, that President Reagan just decided to replace everybody that was on strike. So when he did that there was a mass influx of people.
Close Calls in the Sky