SIA plane in near miss over Houston
Jul 6, 2014, 2:14 am
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SIA plane in near miss over Houston
Source: CNA
A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane leaving Houston flew too close to another aircraft on Friday, resulting in a near collision.
The SIA pilot did not level off when he reached 4,000 feet as required, resulting in the aircraft being less than 2,000 feet away from a Delta Air Lines plane that was preparing to land in Houston, NBC said.
A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane leaving Houston flew too close to another aircraft on Friday, resulting in a near collision.
The SIA pilot did not level off when he reached 4,000 feet as required, resulting in the aircraft being less than 2,000 feet away from a Delta Air Lines plane that was preparing to land in Houston, NBC said.
Jul 6, 2014, 12:55 pm
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A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane leaving Houston flew too close to another aircraft on Friday, resulting in a near collision.
The SIA pilot did not level off when he reached 4,000 feet as required, resulting in the aircraft being less than 2,000 feet away from a Delta Air Lines plane that was preparing to land in Houston, NBC said.
A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane leaving Houston flew too close to another aircraft on Friday, resulting in a near collision.
The SIA pilot did not level off when he reached 4,000 feet as required, resulting in the aircraft being less than 2,000 feet away from a Delta Air Lines plane that was preparing to land in Houston, NBC said.
Jul 6, 2014, 1:37 pm
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Most, if not all, departure procedures out of IAH have an initial altitude restriction of 4,000'. Thus, they can't climb above 4,000' until ATC gives them their next altitude restriction.
Jul 6, 2014, 2:58 pm
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Two airplanes narrowly averted a midair crash near the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston this week in what was the second such incident in as many months.
A Singapore Airlines jumbo 777 flew within 200 feet vertically and about a half-mile horizontally - about eight football fields - of a Delta Air Lines A320 just before 7pm on Thursday.
Air traffic controllers caught the error and corrected the airplanes courses before they got any closer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz36ix6sr9n
A Singapore Airlines jumbo 777 flew within 200 feet vertically and about a half-mile horizontally - about eight football fields - of a Delta Air Lines A320 just before 7pm on Thursday.
Air traffic controllers caught the error and corrected the airplanes courses before they got any closer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz36ix6sr9n
Jul 6, 2014, 5:55 pm
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That actually sounds like the scariest bit. Getting conflicting directions from ATC and TCAS is one of the known dangerous situations that has caused accidents in the past.
Jul 7, 2014, 1:12 am
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Apparently ATC cleared for FL5000ft and told to hold at that FL. Plane continued to climb beyond FL5000ft and at FL5800ft was told to return to FL5000ft. The DL plane was on approach at FL6000ft.
Either way with the little we know I would be careful to make any accusations or jump to conclusions. Media often reports such things inaccurately so I would not rely on what is described there. Investigation will happen and then it will become clear.
BTW, near misses only involving US airlines in US airspace are not unheard off either and actually happen all over the world involving all kinds of carriers. This has nothing to do with non-Western airlines.
Either way with the little we know I would be careful to make any accusations or jump to conclusions. Media often reports such things inaccurately so I would not rely on what is described there. Investigation will happen and then it will become clear.
BTW, near misses only involving US airlines in US airspace are not unheard off either and actually happen all over the world involving all kinds of carriers. This has nothing to do with non-Western airlines.
Jul 7, 2014, 5:51 am
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[QUOTE=demue;23154644]Apparently ATC cleared for FL5000ft and told to hold at that FL. Plane continued to climb beyond FL5000ft and at FL5800ft was told to return to FL5000ft. The DL plane was on approach at FL6000ft.
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As an aside, you don't have flight levels of FL5000ft. You have altitudes of 5000 feet. Flight levels are used above the transition altitude, described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level
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As an aside, you don't have flight levels of FL5000ft. You have altitudes of 5000 feet. Flight levels are used above the transition altitude, described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level