Emergencies on both ends!

[cessna157]

Had a bit of an eventful flight. 

Just flew COM592 JFK-BOS.  Taxi time in JFK looked like it was going to be pretty easy for rush hour, maybe 30 mins at the most.  But of course, as we're turning onto ZA for a 22R departure, we're number 3 for takeoff (check the later portion of the 2330z archive) when DAL94 JFK-BCN jumps on the freq saying they were "stopping on the runway."  Tower asked them is they needed assistance but the declined.  Except a fairly heavy 767 doesn't exactly stop on a dime, and they had already thrown all kinds of smoke from the tires/brakes.  So they changed their minds and tower rolled the trucks out for them.  So we waited for about 15 mins at the runway while the 767 was moved off to the side and the runway checked for debris.

Then of course, we get up to BOS, and approach slows us to 150 kts when we're still 10 miles out due to an emergency inbound to a crossing runway.  So I put our beautiful 900 (yeah yeah, I know I'm always talking up the 900s, but hey, I'm in love) into slow flight for the approach to 27 (check the 0030z archives?) while a JetBlue landed on 33L with the whole flashing lights brigade following them in.

Unfortunately Delta never said why they were aborting or what was wrong (other than the hot brakes due to the abort) and I never did hear what was going on with JetBlue in BOS.