Posted on 08/04/2023 11:20:33 AM PDT by DFG
A JetBlue flight landing at Logan International Airport in Boston nearly smashed into a private jet which took off without permission, the National Transportation Safety Board has revealed.
The incident, on February 27, was captured in a chilling photograph from the JetBlue flight's cockpit which shows the LearJet aircraft obstructing the runway as it came into land.
Only the quick-thinking of the JetBlue Flight 206 pilot prevented a collision, investigators said. The pilot performed a 'climb-out maneuver' to narrowly avoid the other aircraft.
The LearJet's 63-year-old captain - flying for Hop-A-Jet, a Florida-based private charter company - had been told to lineup and read back the air traffic controller's instruction. But the pilot 'then began the takeoff-roll instead'.
He later told investigators: 'I cannot understand what happened to me during the clearance, the only thing that comes to my mind is that the cold temperature in Boston affected me, I was not feeling completely well and had a stuffed nose. My apologies.'
He only learned about the near miss after arriving at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The private jet's crew was notified 'they had taken off without authorization and caused an airplane that had been cleared to land on runway 04 to execute a go-around, passing about 400′ above them.'
The report into the incident said: 'The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this incident to be: The Hop-a-Jet flight crew taking off without a takeoff clearance which resulted in a conflict with a JetBlue flight that had been cleared to land on an intersecting runway.'
The JetBlue aircraft, a Embraer 190, was just 30 feet from the ground and approaching the intersecting runway when the two aircraft came closest to one another.
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Where's that Global Warming when you need it? Will headlines now scream "Collision narrowly avoided because of lack of global warming"?
Near miss
So they collided?
‘My apologies.’ LOLOL...are you sh*tting me?
And the pilots had to buy new underwear................
It's the Daily Mail - leave it alone.
Yep. Blurred vision.
John Kerry was aboard. Don’t they know who he is?
[Joke, AFAIK right now.]
1) "Taxi into position and hold."
2) "Cleared for takeoff"
Both require readback confirmation.
After about 500 feet flying a runway heading you are handed off to departure control.
At controlled airports.
Surprised if this does not happen more often.
Wow. I bet that stained some shorts.
“Only the quick-thinking of the JetBlue Flight 206 pilot prevented a collision, investigators said.”
Yeah, he was so concerned he grabbed a camera and snapped a photo.
‘There’s a huge turnover in the industry, not only among pilots but amongst air traffic controllers, mechanics, mainters, rampers. And with the state of hiring practices and training today and the relentless effort to do things faster, cheaper and more efficiently we’re just one radio call away from having the biggest aviation disaster in history.’
“Only the quick-thinking of the JetBlue Flight 206 pilot prevented a collision”
Isn’t that one of the reasons they are driving the plane?
They are there to take care of unexpected situations.
Flying; hours and hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of sheer terror.
Has anybody noticed that since the staff shortage service is not as good, all new employees. This is happening not just in fastfoods and grocery stores... it’s happening everywhere including hospitals and airports. Inexperienced.
:-)
Within hours, ALL the pilots involved, ALL the Air Traffic Controllers, ground controllers and their uncles... filed NASA ASRS forms.
(it’s a get-out-of-jail card, if timely filed)
;-)
I see your point, but that term has been around for a long time. I think it means close miss, as in the miss was very close.
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