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This is the story of jet blue flight 206. America's airports are busy, so busy that if you look at the worlds busiest airports for 2022 19 of the top 50 airports are american with 4 of the top 5 being american. The growth of air traveli in the US has been immense over the past few decades despite huge challenges to the industry in both 2001 and 2019. But airport infrastructure has not kept up with the growth in traffic. Just to put into context how expansive americans aviation market is south west currently operates 771 boeing 737 that's more than the entire country of india. With so many planes in the air and on the ground keeping them far away from each other becomes a challenge.On the 27th of february 2023 a jet blue embarer 190 was making the trip from nashville to boston. As the embraer 190 into boston, another plane a laer jet 60 was on the ground at boston getting ready for a flight that night. The learjet was owned by the charter company hop a jet. We dont know how many people were on board or where the plane was going as the final report for this incident is surprisingly short. So we dont know a whole lot about the plane, but the pilots who were piloting the learjet were very experienced one of them was a 63 year old male with more than 22500 hours of flying under his belt while the first officer was a 23 year old male with 2300 hours of flying. ON that day the pilots of the learjet had to cross runway 4L using taxiway echo and then get onto taxiway mike which would take them all the way to runway 9 from where they would be taking off from. As all of this was happening the pilots of jet blue flight 206 was setting the plane up for an approach onto runway 4R. As the learjet taxied to runway 9 the ground controller at boston asked for the pilots of the learjet to line up and wait on the runway so that the jetblue embraer could land. The pilots of the embaeer lined the plane with with runway 4R and they took the plane lower and lower until they were close to touching down, just seconds away. Then in the tower an ASDE X alter sounded, the ASDE-X stands for the airport surface detection equipment model X. In simple terms the ASDE is a way to track planes when theyre on the ground and it uses everying from radar to multilateration to satellite images to see where planes are on the ground and more importantly it can predict where targets will be and generate pre emptive warnings to warn controllers about impeding collisions. Today that was exactly what was happening, the learjet and the embaeer were on a collision course taking a quick look at the ground radar showed that the learjet had for some reason started its takeoff roll and it was hurtling towards the intersection fo runway 09 and 4R. The controller knew that she had to act fast and immediately and then she gets on the radio and in the most calm and professional voice ive every heard just says “jetblue 206 go around” in the cockpit the pilots push pull back on the stick and push the engines to max power as the lear jet screams by right in from them. Whats interesting is that someone in the cockpit of the jet blue aircraft was in the jump seat and was recording the approach and we have a picture of the learjet passing in front of the jet blue plane. Ill throw it up on the screen right now. Its truly scary. As the two planes pass each other the controller tells the pilots to maintain runway heading and climb and maiuntain 3000 feet. The learjet continued its takeoff run and climbed away safely. It was scary how close these two planes were. Thye were at the intersection of runway 4R and 9 at the same moment and the learjet was flaring to land when the go around was initiated. The altitude at this point was 30 feet of of the ground and the tail of the leather is 14 feet high which meant that these two planes were only 16 feet apart. For some context these two planes were 2.25 shaquile o neals away from each other. Keep in mind that separation is due to the ASDE system warning the controller in advance and after the crew of jet blue 206 started their go around. If the ASDE had not waned the crew