 The FAA is investigating an incident in the sky above an airport in Syracuse, New York. An American Airlines flight was cleared by air traffic control to land at Syracuse Hancock Airport while a Delta flight was taking off. Police dash cam video appears to show the two jetliners on a collision course. CBS News transportation safety analyst Robert Sumwalt. What this really is in the official vernacular is this is a loss of standard separation, meaning basically that two airplanes should not be this close together.