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JetBlue Flight Has Close Call At Boston Airport

12/ 7/10 08:54 AM ET   AP

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BOSTON — A quick-thinking air traffic controller at Boston's Logan International Airport urgently told a JetBlue flight to "hold" just before it entered a runway where another plane was about to take off.

JetBlue Airways Corp. says Flight 1264 arriving from Austin, Texas on Nov. 24 with 91 passengers landed safely, but while taxiing to the gate the pilot inadvertently took a right instead of turning left.

In audio obtained by WFXT-TV, the air traffic controller can be heard saying "JetBlue hold, JetBlue 1264 hold right there. JetBlue 1264, hold, hold." Ground radar images show the plane stopping just short of the runway where the other plane was speeding to take off.

Matt McCluskey, president of the Boston air traffic controllers union, says the controller is a 32-year veteran who made "a great save."

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09:53 PM on 01/10/2011
I wonder if the passengers knew? So many of us take Jet Blue for the room, seating, convenience.
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08:35 AM on 12/08/2010
Why would anyone suffer the indignities of flying unless they absolutely positively needed to.

The airport scene. YEEEEEEEEEECH.

The plane. Most smell like ass....Yeeeeeeeeeeeeech.

Yeeeech.
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AirViceMarshalPark
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03:25 PM on 12/07/2010
It is almost like the tower controller had developed a 6th sense over 32 years that told him something didn't feel right. I've seen pilots like that where the smallest tic of an instrument needle is picked up in peripheral vision and attention goes right to the event.
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jwatso7
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11:29 AM on 12/07/2010
I hope something happened to the pilot.
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Covering our future as it sprints for safety...
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11:00 AM on 12/07/2010
See this is what's wrong with Unions!!! If that guy had been some 3rd year minimum wage traffic controller, this never would have happened!
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11:52 AM on 12/07/2010
What are you talking about? The save wouldn't have happened? or the pilot wouldn't have made a mistake? The TC has 32 years under his belt and made did a great job how does this reflect poorly on unions?
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Rast262
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07:47 PM on 12/07/2010
Uh, pretty sure that was snark.
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palainausa
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09:50 AM on 12/07/2010
God Bless You, Sir.
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