WASHINGTON The FAA has failed to reverse the rising incidence of near-collisions on airport runways and has little money budgeted for measures to reach its goal of slashing the number of so-called runway incursions by next year, a government watchdog has found.

WASHINGTON An early model of the U.S. Army’s four-engine RC-7 reconnaissance aircraft, which crashed in Colombia with seven people on board including two Colombian army officers, appears not to have been the victim of guns or missiles wielded by guerrillas or drug traffickers.