Scary! 2xC17 - B777 loss of seperation!

[JimNtexas]

US investigators have detailed the confused co-ordination between air traffic controllers that led to a close encounter between an American Airlines Boeing 777 and a pair of US Air Force Boeing C-17s off the New York coast.
The 777 pilots received three resolution advisories from their collision-avoidance system, two ordering a descent and the third demanding a climb, after air traffic control efforts to separate the three aircraft failed.

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[Freight Dawg]

After the C-17 landed at the wrong airport I am not sure if them 17 boys are all squared away. Back my in my day it would have ben an a$$ chew'n and AC would be a wing man again if he was lucky, in heavies I guess that would be the equivalent of a FP.

 

[JimNtexas]

I don't see any indication that any of the aircrew were at fault here.

I've never flown an airplane with TCAS. What do you do if you get two fly downs and one fly up RA in quick succession?

 

[rjacobs]

What do you do if you get two fly downs and one fly up RA in quick succession?

You follow em to the best of your ability.

The VSI has a red bar and a green bar that appear and you fly into the green.

 

[labbats]

What do you do if you get two fly downs and one fly up RA in quick succession?

A dry cleaning bill.