Newfoundland: Near Collision; ATC Missed It

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Tue Oct 3, 6:51 am

Near collision

It happened almost six months ago, but word is just now getting out on a near collision in the skies over Newfoundland. It happened April 11th when two German A-340 Airbuses came within 20 seconds of a head-on crash. Had it not been for the onboard warning devices in the Lufthansa jets, more than 600 passengers and crew would have been sent into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Transportation Safety Board says this is just one of several near-collisions being investigated. The lead investigator says an air traffic controller in Gander did not detect the possible trouble.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), October 03, 2000


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