Near miss Melbourne Virgin Blue vs Qantas, Sunday 5th
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Near miss Melbourne Virgin Blue vs Qantas, Sunday 5th
Virgin Blue 737 and a Qantas 767 during Sunday afternoon’s near miss while climbing away from Melbourne Airport as being as little as 28 metres.
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The State of Victoria has had some lucky escapes in recent times, lets hope the luck continues.
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It must be pretty close to accurate, watch any of the tracks and they all take the same groove, just as the aircraft do.
If you zoom in and watch for the moment where the VBA stops (which we are sure it did not) the distance was around 3km, and the ATSB say 1.9nm so it is close enough for our discussion purposes.
Looks like the 767 gets an RA and descends from around 9700 to 9000'.
Maybe they busted an altitude.
Time will tell.
It must be pretty close to accurate, watch any of the tracks and they all take the same groove, just as the aircraft do.
If you zoom in and watch for the moment where the VBA stops (which we are sure it did not) the distance was around 3km, and the ATSB say 1.9nm so it is close enough for our discussion purposes.
Looks like the 767 gets an RA and descends from around 9700 to 9000'.
Maybe they busted an altitude.
Time will tell.
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G'day Jaba, not denying they got close and if the ATSB says 1.9 then I am not going to disagree. 
Since finding these WebTrack thingies I have seen some fairly close calls but not between RPT. I recall seeing two light aircraft come within 100 metres while their images were superimposed.
Interesting that the 767 was moving so much more quickly than the 737 and climbing faster as well. I would have thought that in the terminal area they both would have been 240 - 250 knots.
Since finding these WebTrack thingies I have seen some fairly close calls but not between RPT. I recall seeing two light aircraft come within 100 metres while their images were superimposed.
Interesting that the 767 was moving so much more quickly than the 737 and climbing faster as well. I would have thought that in the terminal area they both would have been 240 - 250 knots.
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PLovett, I suspect a light 767 vs a heavy 737NG could make enough of a difference to the rates of acceleration for cleanup then to 250Kts & subsequent climb rates to make things tight. This is only conjecture, the ATSB report should clear it up.
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