by "Out, but with a W - has found the answer" (belg)
Published 01/14/2017 at 11:03
by "Out, but with a W - has found the answer" (belg)
Published 01/14/2017 at 11:03
Tags: Planelopnik
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News has come out that on 1 January, an Air France flight and an EgyptAir cargo aircraft almost collided above Belgium. At their closest point, vertical separation was 90 m (300 ft), horizontal separation 1370 m (4,500 ft), at an altitude of 22,000 ft.
The EgyptAir was climbing out of Ostend, en route to Cologne, with the Air France on descent to Amsterdam. The Egyptian crew ignored the ‘maintain’ part of ATC’s ‘climb and maintain’, and allegedly dismissed the TCAS alert as well. Doesn’t sound too good, so I wonder what the ramifications will be.
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"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
01/14/2017 at 12:27, STARS: 4
Ignoring the TCAS almost never ends well. Hard to believe the EgyptAir pilots would knowingly do something that stupid. Hopefully that’s the end of their flying days.
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
01/14/2017 at 12:39, STARS: 1
Agreed. The system is pretty robust. Wonder what kind of CRM issues they were dealing with in the flight deck.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
01/14/2017 at 13:06, STARS: 1
Even a coffee malfunction wouldn’t excuse that. I’m guessing the CVR tapes would not be good PR for EgyptAir.