A U.S. C-130 flying from Bahrain to Aqaba, Jordan tried to land on at the Israeli airport of Eilat on Thursday afternoon.
The cargo plane came close to a Arkia airliner and was warned by Eilat’s control tower of its mistake.
This is the second near-miss incident at Eilat’s airport in the last two weeks.
On May 26, an El Al flight to Eilat with 100 passengers on board narrowly avoided flying into a mountain, clearing its peak by a mere 200 meters.
That plane — a Boeing-737 — was approaching the landing strip in Eilat when the control tower asked the pilots to circle and then return, because the runway wasn’t ready. What was supposed to be a routine procedure Report on El AL incident here
Incident: El Al B738 at Elat on Apr 27th 2013, conflict with terrain and border violation after go-around
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US military plane nearly hits Israeli jet over Eilat | The Times of Israel
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