Dangerous near miss in New York area

[shogan1977]

Keep waiting for this to be posted / discussed: Chilling Account of Airplane Near-Miss - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443517104577571321974520172.html?mod=googlen ews_wsj)

[Intruder]

Why? If it was last year, it was at least 8 months ago, and obviously no collision resulted.

If you know details worthy of discussion -- maybe resulting from the investigation -- then please post them.

[DaveReidUK]

Keep waiting for this to be posted / discussed: Chilling Account of Airplane Near-Miss - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443517104577571321974520172.html?mod=googlen ews_wsj)

It was:

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcony-spotters-corner/441816-aa-777-out-jfk-near-miss-usaf-c-17s.html

[DaveReidUK]

This was released last week, makes interesting reading:

http://dms.ntsb.gov/public%2F51500-51999%2F51976%2F497209.pdf

[betterfromabove]

Why did they not put the Continental FP readback on to another frequency?

Nearly a minute sounds a long time to be taking up an extremely busy frequency and controller.