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
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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
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