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It's become the new Miami vice. Cocaine Cowboys turned to Highway Hijackers, and it is now the costliest crime in America. This crime means more in losses in America than every robbery, larceny, grand theft and burglary combined, but few people have ever heard about it. The CBS4 I-Team uncovered what some cops call America's next big Homeland Security crisis.
Yet another near collision on a runway was reported in South Florida, coming less than a day after an exclusive CBS4 investigation into close calls in our skies and on our airport runways. The CBS4 I-Team has learned that only hours after our I-Team investigation aired, it happened again. This time it happened at Miami International Airport. This latest close call involved a twin engine turboprop and a Boeing 757. Sources tell the CBS4 I-Team that around 10 a.m. Tuesday, an American Eagle Airlines AT-72 made a wrong turn onto runway 26 L. At the same time the 757, operated by UPS, was being cleared for take off, doing 50 knots down the very same runway 26L--headed straight for the turboprop when air traffic controllers intervened and stopped both planes.
There's a growing crisis in the nation's airports, but it has nothing to do with security. Instead, it's your safety in the sky that's at stake. The CBS4 I-Team spent the past four months digging through records many people don't know exist and found there have been more close calls at local airports than passengers know.
The CBS4 I-Team has learned of new, potentially wide-ranging problems with FEMA trailers and the formaldehyde fumes in them. We've reported how they've been banned by FEMA already, but I-Team has learned that could create a major housing shortage should a storm hit here this summer.
It can't happen here." That's the refrain state transportation officials repeated again and again after a major interstate bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last summer. But an exclusive and exhaustive CBS4 I-Team investigation calls all that into question.
Make sure you have current contact information for each employee. Encourage them to tell you where they plan to ride out the storm.
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