Announced on several news channels today, the Airprox Board has listed a near miss between two aircraft to the north west of Pitlochry in Scotland on 23 June. I know this thread has been started on Spotters Corner, but perhaps the implications of a potential disaster on this scale merit this post?
I won't quote the embellished press reports, just point folks in the direction of the Airprox report here :
http://www.airproxboard.org.uk/docs/....09Reports.pdf
Curiosity got the better of me and I can see that the two aircraft were Lufthansa B748 D-ABYC enroute EDDF-KIAD and BA B744 G-BNLM enroute EGLL-CYVR.
One thing to add to the report is that press reports indicate that there "were up to" 1000 souls onboard both aircraft, though in reality likely in excess of 800.