 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 dashcam 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.