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Welcome to World News. Tonight, from Washington. Near miss. Two passenger jets come dangerously close to colliding in the skies over Colorado. From ABC news, this is World News with Charles Gibson reporting tonight from Washington. We learned today of a very serious near miss involving two airliners in the skies over Colorado on the Monday before thanksgiving. Pilots had to take sudden evasive action to avoid colliding after air traffic controllers gave one of the planes incorrect instructions. The story was first reported by our Denver affiliate KMGH. And ABC’s Lisa Stark joins us with more. Lisa?

 

Charlie? The FAA is calling what happened an operational error. That’s bureaucratic language that means controllers made a mistake and allowed planes to get way too close. It was a start of a busy holiday week just days before thanksgiving. Two planes were converging on the Denver airport at around seven in the morning. One of the planes, a Sky West regional jet, was in a string of planes following a set path heading to the airport. The other plane, a regional jet operated by Republic, was flying along a parallel path. Controllers needed to put the republic jet into the same route as the Sky West plane to line them up for landing.

 

That’s when the mistake happened. Controllers gave the republic pilots an incorrect heading, forcing them to make a U-turn. That put the republic jet right in the path of the Sky West plane, which was just 200 feet above it and only a little more than a mile and a half away, closing quickly, just seconds apart. “When you’ve got airplanes coming within 200 feet of each other or aimed at each other, it’s a very dangerous situation.”

 

On board the jets, collision avoidance systems like this one sounded in the cockpit. “Climb. Climb.” forcing the pilots to take evasive action to head off a collision. “You need to follow that command right now.” ABC’s Denver affiliate reports that in the air traffic control center, the images of the planes merged on radar. An aviation source saying, “they were within a blink of an eye of colliding.” Now the FAA confirmed to me it is investigating what it refers to as this serious incident. Former controllers tell us it’s all but impossible to eliminate all errors like these. They say there is the human factor. Charlie?

Lisa Stark reporting tonight. Thanks.

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