A SAS Aircraft was inroute from Copenhagen to Washington with 255 passengers, was yesterday 40 seconds from a collision with a KLM Aircraft over Norway.
It was the two aircrafts own TCAS systems, that avioded the disaster.
8 kilometres from eachother
The two aircrafts was at 36.000ft over Kristianssand.
When the aircrafts TCAS turned on, there was less than 8 kilometres (5 miles) between the aircrafts.
Large passengeraircrafts are flying with about 15 kilometres (9 miles) pr minute.
The case is called a serius incident by the norwegian FAA.
Its now being investigated, if it was a tecnical or a human error that caused the incident.
The norwegian paper Dagbladet writes, that that kind of incident is really rare, and its years ago, last time two aircrafts has been that close to a collision in norwegian airspace.
Translated from danish by Theis Th
Bar by Mees
