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Offline captkel

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Near Miss / Thank You
« on: March 30, 2010, 09:35:58 PM »
I heard this on Wednesday morning 03/18/10 around 15:45 UTC on the Miami Center Bimini Sector Feed.
It shook me up a little. Went back and got it, I edited it for content.  :-o  Note: The reception wasn't at it's best that day. :oops: 
KEL



Offline jeffcyn

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2010, 11:50:36 PM »
Anyone have audio of the actual event?

Offline captkel

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2010, 08:18:36 AM »
Anyone have audio of the actual event?
good idea, I'll have to see if it's still available and figure out the time

Offline captkel

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2010, 07:18:51 PM »
Anyone have audio of the actual event?
good idea, I'll have to see if it's still available and figure out the time
I checked, the archives are only kept for 14 days here. will check the FAA for a mp3.

Offline Heading090

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2010, 06:42:40 AM »
Something does not make sense in this story.
AAL couldn't see the small aircraft on TCAS (=no altitude reporting transponder) but ATC saw him and gave AAL vertical avoiding action (=altitude reporting transponder).
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« Last Edit: April 04, 2010, 12:48:49 PM by Heading090 »

Offline captkel

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2010, 07:31:13 AM »
that crossed my mind too :?

Offline Windtee

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2010, 03:38:40 AM »
No TCAS alert, I assume? Strange. At the very least... they're all alive to tell the story. Good thing.

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Re: Near Miss / Thank You
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2010, 12:48:51 PM »
This is the Flight in question, AAL1593, MCO to MIA with flight times, etc.:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1593/history/20100310/1641Z/KMCO/KMIA


What probably happened was the other plane had no altitude reporting, but ATC had him on their radar.  They probably just gave a traffic call, unknown altitude, to the AAL flight.  They knew to look in that direction and saw the plan in time to avoid the collision. 
« Last Edit: April 08, 2010, 12:52:02 PM by VampyreGTX »