Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

Curated from US news | The Guardian — Here’s what matters right now:

JetBlue pilot calls incident ‘outrageous’ and says US military refueling tanker didn’t have transponder turned on A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US air force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path ... They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” Continue reading...

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Original reporting: US news | The Guardian

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