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Jpost reporting El Al, Air France planes nearly crash in mid air over Belgrade, due to mistake by ATC.
What I don't understand is how these 2 paragraphs in the report make sense
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The two planes were about to crash in midair, but emergency alarms alerted both pilots and the El-Al plane changed course at the last minute, when the distance between the aircraft was only 300 meters.
To travel a distance of 300 meters when flying around 900 KMH, according to my calculation takes only about 1.2 seconds (if flying at right angles to each other, if they were flying towards each other it would be only O.6 seconds), which makes this a tragedy avoided by the skin of the teeth!
Haaretz reporting incidend involved ELAL B777 with 120 passengers on board
Indeed, there is something strange. If the planes were so close to a catastrophe, the pilots would not have had the time to do anything.
Btw, I thought that onboard anti-collision systems were able to AUTOMATICALLY change the routes of the involved planes - at least when both planes are equipped with the system, which should be the case for LY and AF.
