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'Near Collisions' of Commercial Jets Happen All the Time: FAA Records (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Guessing "near collision" means one plane had to divert a few degrees before continuing course? Yeah totally normal, you don't want them to be anywhere close to what you and I consider as "near".

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    AFAIK "near" means "in a minute's time, you might be within a thousand feet of another aircraft".

    Which means 99.99% of the time they didn't "need" to divert course, but they did out of an abundance of caution.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Near miss can be a confusing phrase, but it means a miss where the objects (or planes here) were very near each other. With that context, a near collision wouldn't make sense as there's no way to have a collision where the objects are just near each other (as opposed to contacting each other).

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