Guest just Mal Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 This from "The News" A CORPORATE jet owned by James Packer's Crown Melbourne casino company narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with a passenger aircraft over NSW, an investigation report says. The Gulfstream G-IV came within 244m of a Virgin 737-800 on October 8 over Armidale, in northern NSW, a report by air safety inspectors released today states. The planes should have been 305m apart at the time, the report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/james-packer-crown-melbourne-casino-jet-in-near-miss-with-virgin-737-airliner/story-e6frfq80-1226439816563#ixzz22CrgY8N1 Yep can you imagine being 244 Metres from a 737 in a Gulfstream 1V, at speed, 35 mile out! They would never find enough toilet paper. Here is the incident correctly reported! A report from air safety inspectors, released today, reveals that the Gulfstream IV, which is used to fly Asian high-rollers to Crown's Melbourne casino, and the Virgin 737-800 were flying towards each other on air routes which intersected about 35 nautical miles north-west of the city on October 8. An air traffic controller identified the situation but the instructions issued to the pilot of the Gulfstream meant that the corporate jet was cleared for descent below the level at which the 737 was flying. The progress towards what air inspectors term a "breakdown of separation" continued when the controller did not recognise the error during the Gulfstream pilot's read-back of the clearance, the report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau states. A breakdown of separation occurred about 3pm when the planes got within 4.8 nautical miles (8.9 kilometres) of each other. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/packer-jets-close-encounter-with-virgin-20120731-23cax.html#ixzz22Cucqp23
siznaudin Posted July 31, 2012 Posted July 31, 2012 "Murdoch and Packer - thanks for the news: read one page and you feel half boozed..." :rolleyes:
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