JetBlue Flight 94 MCO-HPN Near miss 1/25/15
 

Investigators Exclusive: Close call as planes nearly collide over Westchester County Airport | 7online.com

Anyone heard about this?

Seems pretty serious.

Airspace type?

Includes all the sensationalist claptrap straight from the Daily Mail School of Reporting!

I love the use of stock footage in the report. The light aircraft miraculously changed from low to high wing between shots.

They "were almost parallel to the sky and ground." Must have been terrifying! :ugh:

HPN traffic
 

It has been a while since I have flown in that area but it used to be Class D airspace with the tower open something like 0600 to 2200. It is not part of the Class Bravo that wraps JFK, LGA and EWR and TEB
The airport has gotten a lot busier in the last decade and you have a mix of Corporate, Scheduled and GA in the area and on the field. You get a lot of GA traffic skirting around the NY Bravo going over or near HPN. The article is crap but I suspect there is a lot of maneuvering done on a regular basis to avoid conflicts.
NYC controllers will usually give you flight following and shortcuts which is well worth doing given the amount of traffic in the area. (BTW - NY controllers are on the whole very friendly and helpful to GA. Just do what they say and shortcuts materialize. No excuse not to use them)

Airspace
 

HPN is class D, and under the 70/30 NYC Class B shelf, but apparently this happened on approach. Judging from the ATC audio (they were still talking to NY APP - 120.8 - when it happened), most likely they were somewhere along Connecticut's southern shoreline.

What was written as though it happened at the airport probably happened 8 miles away.:bored:

Critiquing the article aside, is there a place to get the specifics of this? For a commercial airliner to have to make a maneuver like that seems pretty serious.

I'd like to learn more. I can't find anything on the FAA site and I don't think NTSB would be looking into it.