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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 issued go-around instructions to the JetBlue flight.

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 cameras are rolling to show some solutions are as simple as markings on taxiways that lead to runways. t...

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 we've 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 decades. >> bill and i met in flight school aviation adventures in virginia. here student pilots are...

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 the safeguards are to avoid an incident that could be a disaster. >> on any given day in the united ...

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 training. at the seat of his diamond twin engine trainer, we went over what goes into the runway in...