Post by corsair67 on Jun 30, 2006 11:36:08 GMT 12
From The Australian.
I wonder if this incident involved one of the ex-RNZAF Strikemasters? I think that NZ6370 is based at up that way at Port Macquarie.
Joyride fighter and jet in near-miss
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
June 29, 2006.
A COMPANY offering jet fighter joyrides has revamped its procedures after one of its planes came close enough to a Jetstar Boeing 717 to set off a collision alarm.
Investigators discovered later that the Strikemaster ground attack aircraft was about 250ft (80m) above the airliner with a horizontal separation as little as 1500m during the December 18 incident over Newcastle airport.
This made it close enough to be classified as an "airprox" incident, where the planes were close enough to pose a safety threat. The incident set off alarms aboard the Boeing 717 and on an air traffic controller's console in Brisbane.
"A near-collision was prevented by the combined use of radar-based traffic information and the terrain and collision avoidance system," investigators said in an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report, released yesterday.
The ATSB report said the Strikemaster's pilot had intended to avoid routes likely to be used by other aircraft.
But he assumed the 717 was headed to Brisbane when it was in fact flying to Melbourne.
A series of radio problems meant he did hear radio broadcasts from the Jetstar plane that would have told him where it was and where it was headed.
"Had the pilot of the Strikemaster confirmed what fare-paying passenger operations were expected for the period of the joy flight before leaving the terminal, the occurrence possibly would have been prevented," investigators said.
The report said the jet fighter's operator had since reviewed and amended procedures for flights near Lismore and Williamtown airports to improve pilot awareness and radio procedures.
I wonder if this incident involved one of the ex-RNZAF Strikemasters? I think that NZ6370 is based at up that way at Port Macquarie.
Joyride fighter and jet in near-miss
Steve Creedy, Aviation writer
June 29, 2006.
A COMPANY offering jet fighter joyrides has revamped its procedures after one of its planes came close enough to a Jetstar Boeing 717 to set off a collision alarm.
Investigators discovered later that the Strikemaster ground attack aircraft was about 250ft (80m) above the airliner with a horizontal separation as little as 1500m during the December 18 incident over Newcastle airport.
This made it close enough to be classified as an "airprox" incident, where the planes were close enough to pose a safety threat. The incident set off alarms aboard the Boeing 717 and on an air traffic controller's console in Brisbane.
"A near-collision was prevented by the combined use of radar-based traffic information and the terrain and collision avoidance system," investigators said in an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report, released yesterday.
The ATSB report said the Strikemaster's pilot had intended to avoid routes likely to be used by other aircraft.
But he assumed the 717 was headed to Brisbane when it was in fact flying to Melbourne.
A series of radio problems meant he did hear radio broadcasts from the Jetstar plane that would have told him where it was and where it was headed.
"Had the pilot of the Strikemaster confirmed what fare-paying passenger operations were expected for the period of the joy flight before leaving the terminal, the occurrence possibly would have been prevented," investigators said.
The report said the jet fighter's operator had since reviewed and amended procedures for flights near Lismore and Williamtown airports to improve pilot awareness and radio procedures.