Spirit airliner dodges skydiving plane

[jclalor 12]

Anyone know anything about this?



http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/faa-probes-close-call-between-texas-bound-spirit-jetliner-skydiving-plane-over-south-michigan/2013/07/01/19c79886-e2b6-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html

[kuai43 7]

"the Spirit jet received an automated TCAS warning that required him to begin an immediate 1,600-foot descent to 12,800 feet from a previous altitude of 14,400 feet.”

Sounds like someone showed some boobies to get some extra altitude and then got their sunset jump ruined.

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[oldwomanc6 60]

Why can't the luggage bins stay shut? This seems to be a common problem when anything unusual happens. I'm not talking crash forces, just anything out of the ordinary.

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[ryoder 1,590]

oldwomanc6

Why can't the luggage bins stay shut? This seems to be a common problem when anything unusual happens. I'm not talking crash forces, just anything out of the ordinary.

Well, if the bins were designed to stay shut, then what would writers use to emphasize the how radical the flight maneuver was?

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ryoder

***Why can't the luggage bins stay shut? This seems to be a common problem when anything unusual happens. I'm not talking crash forces, just anything out of the ordinary.

Well, if the bins were designed to stay shut, then what would writers use to emphasize the how radical the flight maneuver was?

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[FlyingRhenquest 1]

jclalor

Anyone know anything about this?



http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/faa-probes-close-call-between-texas-bound-spirit-jetliner-skydiving-plane-over-south-michigan/2013/07/01/19c79886-e2b6-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html

Ok, but really, how could would it be to get the light, check the spot, and see a jet airliner below you? Or be looking out the window after your jet airliner just did an emergency dive and see skydivers waving at you?

One of the DIA approaches from the west goes right over our DZ. A couple times those guys have looked pretty damn low. We usually only go up to about 12K AGL (Which is about 17K MSL) but the other day I told the pilot I wouldn't show him my boobs if he gave us another 1000 feet.

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[JohnMitchell 16]

Couple of questions. . .

Had the jump pilot called ATC yet?

Did the controller call traffic to the Spirit Wings A/C in a timely fashion?

Were they truly on a "collision course" or just close? What looks really close on radar and TCAS can be pretty innocuous when you see the other A/C pass by 300 yards away.

Why were the flight maneuvers done so radically? TCAS alerts are supposed to give directives that result in fractional G-loads, not float flight attendants thru space.

Did the jump plane have the airliner in sight?

Lots of variables and it's hard to know the details from a news report. Glad everyone is okay.

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kuai43

"the Spirit jet received an automated TCAS warning that required him to begin an immediate 1,600-foot descent to 12,800 feet from a previous altitude of 14,400 feet.”

Sounds like someone showed some boobies to get some extra altitude and then got their sunset jump ruined.

Or they airline/FAA use MSL and the DZ/jumppilot use AGL.

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it may be that thread gets locked or moved as it doesn't appear to be an Incident as such, but I'm not a moderator of that forum so am only able to lock this duplicate.

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