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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...

Slamming onto each other on the runway in 1977. bill and i met at flight school aviation adventures in virginia. here, student pilots are taught about runway incursions almost immediately in their training. in the pilot seat, bill and i are setting out on a demonstration of what goes into a runway incursion and what keeps pilots from making mistakes that could be deadly. >> there are a lot of layers built in to prevent even when something does go wrong from it becoming catastrophic. >> five came...

Disaster. airlines operate 45,000 commercial flights, taking off, landing and taxiing at some of the busiest airports in the world, delivering millions of passenger safely can be a delicate dance. one mistake can bring it all to a halt. >> runway incursions have been around since weve had more than one runway. >> former ntsb investigator recalls the disaster of 1977. two boeing 747s slammed into each other on the runway. more than 500 people died. >> runway incursions have been a tough nut for d...

With how these busy runways actually look from the pilots perspective. pete, what did you find? >> what is so interesting is that this is unprecedented. seven traumatic runway incursions back to back. we have never seen a string like this. we are talking about planes hundreds of feet apart, seconds away from disaster. the official term based on the faa definition is called a runway incursion, but we just wanted to show folks simply how close plans can get, where the problem areas are, and where ...

Taxiing at some of the busiest airports in the world, delivering millions of passengers precisely and safely can be a delicate dance. one mistake can bring it all to a halt. >> runway incursions have been around since we have had more than one runway. >> reporter: former ntsb bill english recalls the tanner reef disaster when two boeing 747s slammed into each other, and more than 300 people died. bill and i met at pilot school, and we were taught about runway incursions almost immediately in the...

Rolled on to a runway in the path of a eunited jet about to take off this was not an isolated incident theres been more than 600 runway incursion incidents this year gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: with spring break travel season underway, they are drilling down whats going on and it comes as the faa is now investigating another incident, a near collision right here at reagan national. a plane dropping within 800 feet of the pacific ocean to more than half a dozen collisions, the aviation ...

Participants about what they are seeing in their ow operations and more importance, i wan specific ideas about how t enhance our already robust safety net with concrete actions. >> the pressing question, ar these a string of coincidences or is there an ongoing safet issue that needs to be addressed now? tsv chief, jennifer homendy. >> we really need to focus o butz going on in the aviatio system lets take a pause lets do a safety stand down and lets figure out, what are we missing here? >> all r...

Boston logan international airport where for he is was arrested. united airlines says torres has been banned from future flights on the carrier. he is detained right now pending a hearing before a judge on thursday. don. >> so you had this. we are learning of a new runway incursion under investigation this morning. the sixth recorded this year. what do you know? >> reporter: well, this we are learning about. it happened february 16th according to the ntsb. but its investigating as the planes wer...

New york. this is all taking place as president bidens nominee to lead the faa sits down for his confirmation hearing and it hasnt exactly been smooth sailing for him. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us now. pete, if confirmed, he clearly has a lot on his plate? >> reporter: yeah, no permanent leader at the faa, bianna. thats an issue because theres issue after issue facing the information. go back to earlier this year when a day-wide ground stop at americas airports then the issue...

Began taxiing on to the runway ahead. an air traffic controller in the tower urgently noticed the problem. >> [ bleep ] delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. >> the delta crew slammed on the brakes. something typically only practiced in flight simulators like this one. >> the captain came on and explained that air traffic control had told him to abort the takeoff because there was another aircraft on the runway. i didnt really sink in how serious a near miss this wa...