against. you are going to need transmissions from the individual who is at a time when you know he is not under stress. that s why it would be important to get the actual recordings as bill has said of the back and forth between the ground controllers and the aircraft. that last transmission, all right. good night. raises a couple of questions. what s all right? good night said this is the last i m going to talk to you. there was an agreement between the controller and the copilot if that was him on the radio that the copilot would not be talking to him again and the copilot was in agreement with something that the ground controller said and you would expect the next communication to be with some other frequency to some other ground station. that s what s implied.
good afternoon to you and yours. it s 3:00 on the east coast. noon on the west coast. first, a big clue in the mystery of the missing airlines jet could lie in the last words from the cockpit. what who said them, and did that person know what was about to happen? moments after he radioed the ground controller, all right, good night. it s now been ten days since the jumbo jet vanished while flying from malaysia to beijing with 239 people onboard. investigators say it s obvious to them this was no accident. that somebody flew that jumbo jet off course on purpose. after more confusion from malaysian officials over the weekend it s getting tiresome. they say they finally nailed down the timeline. it was 1:07 a.m. local time when the maintenance transmission stopped. the final words from the cockpit
frightening moments at boston s airport to tell you about. two jet blue planes, packed with thanksgiving travelers and just now learning about this incident and how close disaster came. homeland security correspondent jaene meserve is in washington. what happened? reporter: doesn t get much closer than this. it was the day before thanksgiving. one of the busiest travel days of the year and two jet blue flights narrowly averted a runway collision. jet blue flight 1264 just arrived from austin, texas, holding on a taxiway. the ground controller tells the pilot to taxi to the terminal. but instead of taking a left on to 22 right, the pilot took a right and headed for runway 33 left but barrelling down 33 left
though. involved two jetblue flights packed with thanksgiving travelers. and we re just now learning about the incident and how disaster was averted. homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is live in washington to tell us what happened. jeanne? carol, john, talk about a close call. this was one of the busiest travel days of the year when two jetblue flights narrowly averted a runway collision. jetblue flight 1264 had just arrived from austin, texas, and was holding on a taxi way. the ground controller tells the pilot to taxi to the terminal via runway 22 right and taxi way c. but instead of taking a left on to 22 right, the pilot took a right and headed for runway 33 left. but barrelling down 33 left, jetblue flight 417 taking off for palm beach. the ground controller realizes what s about to happen. jetblue hold, jetblue 1264
flight 417 taking off for palm beach. the ground controller realizes. jet blue hold. right there. hold. hold. flight 1264 hears him, stops, crisis averted. jet blue tells cnn that because flight 1264 never entered an active runway it doesn t fit the definition of a near collision and the airline said the process by the airline, pilots and atc, that s air traffic control, designed to prevent and mitigate inadvertent errors. the system worked. 91 people on board the flight. the airline not able to tell us how many passengers were on the other aircraft but this was one of the busiest travel days of the year. john, kiran? not classified as a near collision but it actually was. i m wondering the consequences for the pilot? anything? reporter: as far as we know there weren t any. it s a nonissue.