Plane come THISCLOSE to Crashing and Burning!!!

For the second time in a week, there is a near collision at JFK airport.
A Delta 757 crossed the path of another jetliner "while aborting a landing," says the FAA.
Delta Flight 123 missed a landing approach and needed to go around the path of Comair Flight 1520, which was taking off perpendicularly.
this part lifted from CNN:
Brown said the two aircraft were more than a half mile away from each other and weren't at the same altitude. Air traffic controllers safely separated the two aircraft, she said.

National Air Traffic Controllers Association JFK Tower Facility representative Barrett Byrnes, however, said the two planes came within 600 feet of each other.

On Saturday night, Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile Flight 533, which was departing the airport, came close to Cayman Airways Flight 792 as it was landing, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting an investigation.

There were conflicting reports of how close the planes were in that incident as well.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said that although the flights crossed paths, there was a vertical distance of 100 feet between them. The FAA said the planes were 300 vertical feet apart and half a mile apart horizontally.