Etihad and Emirates over Arabian Sea

smurfjed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3021331/Emergency-alarms-sound-Emirates-Etihad-planes-come-25-SECONDS-collision-flying-Arabian-Sea.html

The article actually explains the difference between TA's and RA's.

Doesn't give any other details like minimum lateral separation or vertical separation so its hard to tell whether this was a phantom RA or an actual potential serious incident.

Could easily have been triggered by the rate of climb of one aircraft climbing towards the other aircraft.

smurfjed

by the rate of climb

True, but isn't that the reason why we are told to reduce rate of climb approach level off?

smurfjed

smurfjed wrote: »

True, but isn't that the reason why we are told to reduce rate of climb approach level off?

Yes indeed but doesn't always happen.

artanevilla

TCAS did it's job then. No surprise to see what paper in reporting this so called incident.

smurfjed

so called incident

By our book, its a reportable incident.

murphaph

artanevilla wrote: »

TCAS did it's job then. No surprise to see what paper in reporting this so called incident.

If TCAS is called upon to prevent a crash then it's a serious incident.