It's strange how vast the sky is and how easily TWO aircraft can manage to
be
in the same place at the same time.

especially when you are using the same runway..

we had an "incident" that could not be termed a near miss, helo training,
pilot called the auto rotation to the parallel taxiway, but over shot the
base turn and was over the runway. Jump plane had started take off roll when
he spied the helo out of position and aborted his take off roll. Luckily he
was only doing about 40knts and was not up to lift off speed when he
aborted, he was heavily loaded with jumpers.

Get well soon Barry

BT