Near MISS, or near HIT?? We’re just sayin… An American Airlines jetliner barely missed two giant military cargo planes in a harrowing near-collision over the Atlantic two weeks ago, investigators said today. Authorities suspect errors by Long Island-based air controllers and the jetliner’s pilot in the incident, an air control source told The Post. American Flight 951 took off around 9:30 p.m. from Kennedy Airport on the night of Jan. 20. An hour later, about 80 miles southeast of New York, the American Boeing 777 came within 200 feet vertically and 2,000 feet horizontally of two military C17 cargo planes heading toward McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, the air controller source said. The planes were close enough to trigger a traffic collision avoidance system, or TCAS, alert on the American Airlines jet, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The incident also triggered automatic alerts to the FAA’s New York Center, which oversees that area of the Atlantic Ocean. With the TCAS alert and the controllers’ guidance, the planes avoided a collision, the NTSB said. Controllers in the New York Center, located in Ronkonkoma, were briefed on the incident Thursday. The NTSB says it has already interviewed the controllers involved, and is still gathering information from the Air Force and the airline. Regardless of the terminology used, we’re glad that the planes did NOT crash into each other. God is good, let the chuuch say ‘Amen’. Source
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Jesus Take The Wheel: American Airlines Flight Nearly Misses 2 Military Cargo Planes!
