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Old 18th Feb 2002, 10:16
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Luca_brasi
 
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I saw something about how the aircraft coming from LAX was assigned FL310 by a French Polynesia traffic controller when it should have been at either FL320 or FL300. The aircraft flying to LAX was at FL310 as is as i believe is normal for that flight (hemispherical rule)

I think TCAS alerted both aircraft to the impending collision and one aircraft climbed 500ft and the other dived 500ft. Total lateral seperation i believe was about 15km between the aircraft

Please correct me if im wrong
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