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Aviation correspondent pete muntean. this is, what, the fifth incident involving a commercial airliner this year. give us the details. >> we're talking jfk, austin, burbank, honolulu, and now in boston last night as this jet blue flight 206 was coming in for landing at the airport, and the faa says a private jet was taking off on the intersecting runway in front of it. the latest data from flight radar 24. this is preliminary data. said the two planes came within 565 feet of colliding. that is very, very close. worse yet, the faa says that private jet did not have clearance to take off. the fa...

Accident. >> the key is to get out early. one of the things that's interesting about this particular accident, the plane went 500 feet on the runway before this all happened. what questions do you have about this? >> first of all, the run way is over a mile long down here. so they had plenty of runway. 500 feet doesn't seem that much. i haven't gone and measured how far they went down the runway before they tried to take off. but the key is pilots on takeoff are always ready to abort a takeoff. they get to a point of their decision speed they have to go or don't go. unless the airplane is unfl...

Tower's position. you have a guy in a plane saying i'm taking off and going, what option did they have? >> once he's on the runway and rolling down the runway, none. we have seen hollywood block busterers where police cars or fuel trucks are racing to try to get in front of a plane to stop it, but in reality the controller didn't have time to do anything. from what we have learned, they knew that he was moving and he wasn't authorized to do that. but if he was heading straight to that runway and starting that takeoff role, that's it. you're going up at 134 miles an hour. that plane is lifting ...