Midair over North Las Vegas 17th July 2022

[Piper_Driver]

Vegas mid air collision (https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIsB0iLPy0QsE8Cspv9DwNYqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowzuOICzCZ4ocDMKma owY?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen)

Piper Meridian and Cessna 172 collide over North Las Vegas airport. 2 occupants abroad each aircraft were killed. Cause unknown at this time.

[340drvr]

Accident Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage JetPROP DLX N97CX, 17 Jul 2022 (aviation-safety.net) (https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/280467)

"Preliminary information indicates the Malibu was instructed to land on runway 30L but approached 30R, the Skyhawk was on approach to 30R and a collision occurred."

KVGT's parallel runways have staggered thresholds that can be hard to see. One has to pay close attention.
RIP. Not much else to say.

[First_Principal]

Such tragic and sometimes avoidable events touch me a great deal. So much so that I once spent a deal of time trying to provide useful feedback to an official investigation into mid-air events here.

I have no comment on this other than that I wanted to know more about how two 'planes could be approaching the same runway in what I assumed was a controlled environment, and whether there was anything I could learn for the future.

At this point I've come away from my research partly because there seems to be two possibly conflicting purported audio recordings of ATC/pilot comms. There is this and then this (https://www.fox5vegas.com/video/2022/07/19/breakdown-moments-leading-deadly-north-las-vegas-plane-crash/). Obviously neither are authoritative sources, and I suspect there may be missing sections, however I can't help but think of something I read in Arthur Hailey's 'Airport' many years ago; the essence of which was that if ATC say anything like 'turn left/right immediately', do so without prevarication!

To avoid doubt - I reiterate that I am, absolutely, not casting any view on the terrible event itself, and if anyone reading this knows people involved then please know that even thousands of miles away someone really cares.

Footnote: I didn't realise posting the 'tube link would put up a picture of the video, which somehow seems a little crass to me. If there's any way to do so without it please let me know, or fix it if you can, thanks.