From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7280079.stm
Two planes nearly collided in mid-air off the south east coast of Ireland last September, an inquiry has found.
Pilots were not warned by Shannon Airport radar control they were on a collision course despite four warnings and three control system alerts.
A Ryanair jet en route from Stansted to Cork was carrying 179 passengers while a Flightline plane was bringing 164 people from Faro, Portugal to Dublin.
The planes were in critically dangerous proximity, the official report said.
The Irish Air Accident Investigators Unit (AAIU) said potential disaster was only averted by the quick action of the pilots, alerted by their own onboard systems.
Sounds like the TCAS did its job, fortunately!
Ian
By: keltic - 6th March 2008 at 19:47
I wonder why people don´t take seriously the lives of other people. Four warnings………?. What where they doing?.
They should be fired off inmediately 😡
Haven´t we learnt anything from the Swiss mid-air disaster a few years ago?. :confused: :confused: :confused:
By: mike currill - 6th March 2008 at 14:34
Makes you wonder what air traffic were playing at from that report. It certainly gives the impression that their minds were somewhere other than on the job.
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March 6, 2008 at 1:50 pm