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- Two planes nearly collided as one came into land and one tried to take off from the same runway.
- To avoid colliding, the pilot of the JetBlue plane took off steeply, smashing its tail into the runway.
- An alarming number of potentially dangerous close calls between aircraft have happened this year, FAA data suggests.
Two planes narrowly avoided colliding on a runway in Colorado after a JetBlue pilot made a quick-thinking maneuver.
Unclear communication between the planes and the air traffic control center led to one plane taking off and one coming in to land at around the same time on January 22, 2022, according to a National Transit Safety Board report published this week.