Continental123 From United States, joined Nov 2006, 147 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1053 times:
I was on a flight from LHR-JFK last weekend and during the flight our Delta B767-300 was flying over the atlantic and I looked out the window to see a CO 752 flying literally parallel to us and only a few hundered feet away. Is this normal or what could another cause be? After a few seconds our plane started descending at a quicker rate then the CO aircraft and it went out of sight.
PlanesNTrains From United States, joined Feb 2005, 2196 posts, RR: 11 Reply 1, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 967 times:
I have never had a close encounter in this regard, but I have seen a number of what I would call "close encounters" between aircraft over my home in Auburn, Washington.
It's always when aircraft are flying on intersecting flightpaths - departures to the south at SeaTac that turn east over Auburn, and arrivals coming westbound that turn north over Auburn. Aircraft frequently pass over one another at what to me appears to be a few hundred feet. My judgment may be skewed, but I can tell they are all 737/320/MD80 aircraft, and they appear to be identical in size.
If someone can explain the rules with these situations, that'd help me a lot (and probably the original poster as well.).
Iahflyr From United States, joined Jun 2005, 3388 posts, RR: 37 Reply 2, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 931 times:
Quoting Continental123 (Thread starter): looked out the window to see a CO 752 flying literally parallel to us and only a few hundered feet away.
1,000' vertical separation is what you most likely saw, unless there was a screw up....1,000' of separation at altitude with 2 large airplanes looks quite close.
Quoting PlanesNTrains (Reply 1): If someone can explain the rules with these situations, that'd help me a lot (and probably the original poster as well.).
1,000' vertical unless visual separation is applied for IFR aircraft to pass over one another.
Vega From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (2 years 11 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 902 times:
Quoting Continental123 (Thread starter): I was on a flight from LHR-JFK last weekend and during the flight our Delta B767-300 was flying over the atlantic
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