NMAC over Indiana - CNN Reports jets traveling at 12 miles per second!

[Steveair]

AURORA -- A cockpit safety device is credited with helping pilots avoid a mid-air collision at 25,000 feet over Indiana.
According to a preliminary investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, the planes came within seconds of colliding because of an error by an air traffic controller.
FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the incident happened amid a shift change during a busy time at the Chicago Center radar facility in Aurora.
Officials say that controller directed a Midwest Airlines plane flying east from Milwaukee into the path of a United Express jet heading west out of Greensboro, North Carolina.
The collision-avoidance device in the Midwest plane went off, and an airline spokeswoman says the pilots executed an emergency climb to get out of the way.
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PER CNN at 1:10 Eastern: "The jets were traveling at 12 miles per second!" Nice...

 

[DX Rick]

PER CNN at 1:10 Eastern: "The jets were traveling at 12 miles per second!" Nice...

So much for saving fuel.
They must have a special "Last Leg/Hotel Thrust" setting.

 

[G2T]

That's 43,200 MPH, the fastest 717 ever created apparently.

 

[hey]

Actually, they are reporting the fastest 328...

I was the F/O on the flight. If anyone happens to know the crew of the United Express flight, pm me, I'd like to talk to them.

 

[mcjohn]

According to a preliminary investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, the planes came within seconds of colliding because of an error by an air traffic controller.
FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the incident happened amid a shift change during a busy time at the Chicago Center radar facility in Aurora.

What do you want to talk to them about? Has an FAA investigator visited or something?

 

[hey]

Nope, just wondering if they had an RA from us and took action as well. The articles all say that we were the ones deviating.

 

[relief tube]

I believe the other crew was mesa.

This doesn't make sense and is irrelevant, but let's just blame mesa for the whole thing- take another 80 mil from J.O.'s hot daughter's trust fund.

 

[siucavflight]

I will get you the Captains info.

 

[Steveair]

CNN reported that one plane went up and the other went down per the RA guidance. Then again... they reported the 12 miles per second thing too...


NBC did a bang up job too: I like the Midwest Connect ATR graphic
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mk...Top_Cat:ps:10:sd:-1:ind:1:ff:8A&wa=wsignin1.0

 

[pilotmyf]

What do you want to talk to them about? Has an FAA investigator visited or something?

I think the pm part was to keep you out of the conversation.