Passenger planes in near miss over Scotland
- 10 years ago
Originally published on October 23, 2013
Two passenger planes carrying a total of 1,000 people narrowly averted a collision over Scotland in June, a report by a British flight safety watchdog has revealed, according to the Scotsman newspaper.
The pilots of the two Boeing 747s were warned to take immediate evasive action as the planes' paths gradually converged on June 23.
They failed to properly follow instructions, either having "misheard or misinterpreted" them read the UK Airprox Board report, and instead flew closer.
"It was possible that the crews may have been distracted because this would have been about the time that they would have been receiving their Oceanic clearances on data-link," said Airprox in its findings.
"Another possibility mooted by an airline-pilot member was that, having settled into their trans-Atlantic routine, it was unusual for pilots to be issued with avoiding action instructions at that altitude and location.
"Expecting only routine information to be transmitted at that time, they may have been perplexed by the avoiding action information and instinctively responded without properly assimilating it."
The transatlantic planes were roughly 30 miles north of Glasgow and were 10 nautical miles apart horizontally at the time of the first alert.
Within a minute, they were within three miles of each other and at one point the aircrafts came within 100ft vertically.
A collision was avoided when both pilots, physically seeing the other aircraft, took evasive action, one climbing and the other descending.
The report concluded that both flight crews had taken each others' instructions.
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Two passenger planes carrying a total of 1,000 people narrowly averted a collision over Scotland in June, a report by a British flight safety watchdog has revealed, according to the Scotsman newspaper.
The pilots of the two Boeing 747s were warned to take immediate evasive action as the planes' paths gradually converged on June 23.
They failed to properly follow instructions, either having "misheard or misinterpreted" them read the UK Airprox Board report, and instead flew closer.
"It was possible that the crews may have been distracted because this would have been about the time that they would have been receiving their Oceanic clearances on data-link," said Airprox in its findings.
"Another possibility mooted by an airline-pilot member was that, having settled into their trans-Atlantic routine, it was unusual for pilots to be issued with avoiding action instructions at that altitude and location.
"Expecting only routine information to be transmitted at that time, they may have been perplexed by the avoiding action information and instinctively responded without properly assimilating it."
The transatlantic planes were roughly 30 miles north of Glasgow and were 10 nautical miles apart horizontally at the time of the first alert.
Within a minute, they were within three miles of each other and at one point the aircrafts came within 100ft vertically.
A collision was avoided when both pilots, physically seeing the other aircraft, took evasive action, one climbing and the other descending.
The report concluded that both flight crews had taken each others' instructions.
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