Close Call Between Iberia Airbus A321 and Air Europa Boeing 787 Near the Canary Islands
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In the middle of the night, off the Canary Islands, an Airbus from the Iberia company and a Boeing from Air Europa found themselves on the same air route and at the same altitude. A few seconds separated them from a potential disaster.
A tragedy was just averted a decade ago. As they were drifting one to the other, two planes were able to avoid just before the shock thanks to their anti-collision system.
The Spanish aviation accident investigation authority, CIAIAC, has opened an investigation into an incident that occurred on July 10, Airportal reports. An Iberia Airbus A321XLR, en route from Recife, Brazil to Madrid, and an Air Europa Boeing 787-9 Dreamline, en route from Madrid to São Paulo, Brazil, were cleared to cruise at the same altitude of 36,000 feet on route N857. The former was flying northeast in the oceanic airspace of the Canary I…
Two scheduled aircraft, an Airbus A321XLR from Iberia and a Boeing 787-9 from Air Europa, found themselves flying one against the other...
The two planes would be flying in the same direction, in opposite directions, near the coast of the Western Sahara and the Canary Islands, both authorized to maintain the same level of flight.
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bienpublic.comOn 10 July, an aerial disaster was avoided over the Canary Islands: two aircraft were flying towards each other. An investigation was opened.
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