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Federal investigators say the tail of a JetBlue plane struck a Colorado runway during takeoff last year when the captain quickly pointed the jet’s nose upward to get airborne and avoid a head-on crash with a plane preparing to land on the same runway.
The JetBlue captain pointed the nose of his jet up more quickly than normal "due to his surprise about encountering head on landing traffic," the NTSB said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said a JetBlue plane was taking off on the same runway as a King Air plane was about the land on at the Yampa Valley Regional Airport.