In a heart-stopping close encounter, the determined pilot of a JetBlue aircraft was forced to perform a heroic wave-off maneuver to sidestep an imminent head-on runway crash. The consequence resulted in a slightly bruised tail-end of the JetBlue craft following a close call event that occurred almost two years ago.
A freshly minted report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) unveils the chilling details of the incident. The dramatic saga of the flight crew eradicating what could have been a calamitous mishap was played out as the pilot, encompassed by a web of urgency, pulled the nose of the plane upwards in suspension, thus causing the tail of the aircraft to touch the grounding.
