aviation consultant mike mccarron shows us the track approaching sfo yesterday morning. the faa said the pilot was cleared to the land on 21r, but controllers noticed it was headed for 21l where a virgin american airliner was set to take off for hawaii. >> you're looking maybe 20 seconds -- 15, 20 seconds to cover a mile's distance. it was close but there was more than enough time. >> the air mexico pilot did pull up, circle around and land safely. this follows two similar incidents in the past nine months involving air canada planes. in one incident, an air canada jet nearly landed on top of one jet awaiting takeoff. passenger's shared their thoughts. >> we had to go up and back around because the planes were too close. >> i'm confident. >> it's a near miss. >> they say they can take comfort in the fact that the system works. >> the controllers watched, saw he wasn't lined up properly, gave the command to go around, he went around and landed safely. >> reporter: the faa is, of course, investigating this incident. the question is how did that pilot, who was clear for one

emerged russia's over hold it on today opinions to change sions this was due to the findings of the mccarron report which had been prompted by allegations made by former moscow lab head turned whistleblower are going to get a notch in court however despite the progress not all the clean up leaks will be able to go to the games of those sixty seven tested and cleared of doping only thirty to thirty five will be allowed to participate and they must meet a list of criteria that confirms none of them was ever implicated in the doping scheme knowingly or unknowingly radio sports host alan moore believes all clean athletes should be allowed to compete everything that is said today i mean it. is a little bit of given it at their low so massive it's between thirty thirty five to compete a lot of a still doesn't make sense because ultimately as we all know this diseases are based on an informant's kind of wish to get away from russia so i mean did this is based on roger and dog i think we have to be very careful in how we deal with this for pressure does athletes the power of athletes they are alread

all right let's return journey mccarron who is policy analyst at the arab center in washington d.c. he joins us live now from the u.s. capital what do you think is behind this policy decision which of course. it was known would be very unpopular with those main stakeholders in the syrian crisis the syrian government itself russia and of course turkey. yes i mean obviously the u.s. is trying to counter the u. turkish russian. plan and the with the support of iran of course to try to basically have control of those a blip so now you see the u.s. reaction with both the you know what's the end game is the force that are already on the ground there are changing there are there there are men that basically to be a border zone which means if they're going to have a border control they want to stop the progression of those inside syria this is what is a bit reacting this way but the end game of the of the u.s. france is not clear where they are now also far is they want to finish the fight the guinness's stabilize those are senior and coat iranian influence when they went to congress to you

mike mccarron says, yes, this was close but there was more than enough time for aeromexico to correct and that the system did work. >> all the backup systems kicked into place, controllers watched, saw that he wasn't lined up properly, they gave the command to go around, he went around and landed safely. >> i'm pretty confident. we have had a good safety record here. >> reporter: last july pilots on an air canada flight mistook the runway -- mistook the taxi way for the runway next to it and dipped to just 59 feet aboveground before pulling up to attempt another landing. this photo that you see on your screen illustrates just how close that flight came to colliding with the other aircraft on the ground. then in october there was another air canada flight that hand at sfo despite attempts at air traffic control to wave them off because there was another aircraft still on the runway. the pilots of that air canada flight they were having radio problems at the time. reporting live in millbrae, just across from sfo, bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> it is 5:35 right now, u.s. government