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This forced a JetBlue flight, which was only 30 feet off the ground, to abort its landing on an intersecting runway.

The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday cited the failure of a charter pilot to get a takeoff clearance in a February incident in Boston that resulted in a near-collision with a JetBlue flight. JetBlue Flight 206 that was about to land from Nashville was forced to perform a go-around because Hop-a-Jet flight 280 took off without clearance on intersecting runway, the NTSB said. The board said the airport surface detection equipment issued an alert, and the air traffic controller is...