The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reports a near-miss incident involving an Air Canada jet at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday.
The FAA says the pilots of a Republic Airways flight took evasive action after the jet missed its intended approach and flew too close to the Air Canada plane.
Monday’s incident comes after two Canadian pilots were killed when an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport last month.
(As an fyi – AC was coming in on ILS and the Republic was on VLS. The Republic plane ending up flying through the approach path and began its descent heading towards 17R instead of 17L. Both cockpits and the tower’s warning systems went off and the planes quickly veered off. It’s estimated the two planes were about 350 ft apart.
I’ve never understood the term “near-miss”
If I nearly miss something — then I hit it.
They were very close. 2.5 seconds is what the expert estimated.
Scary stuff.
The procrastinator in me: I’ve git at least 1.5 seconds before I have to actually do something.
Lol.
The joke is funny, but the real explanation is that a “near miss” is to distinguish it from a “far miss” or just a “miss” in general, not really applicable to aircraft collisions, but if you were say, aiming at a target or throwing darts at a dartboard, a “near” miss where you were very close but didn’t hit the target, which is substantially different from a “far” miss where you are way off. The “very close but didn’t hit” part then turns into the “near miss” of a collision.
George Carlin, is that you?
Lol