But no TCAS RA ?
Bit of a non-story methinks. The article quoted is clearly from a newspaper - you can tell from the stupid unnecessarily alarmist language: "TWO packed Qantas jets came within 250m of a mid-air collision", and is making a mountain out of a molehill.
A similar situation sometimes happens when traffic following a SID from LHR causes a TCAS TA to overflying aircraft, but no more than that.
Seems as though a controller got things slightly wrong here, but no damage done, and a lesson learned I expect.
Last edited by Uplinker; 10th Oct 2012 at 08:20.