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Hundreds of passengers watched in horror as their British Airways jumbo narrowly avoided a collision with another airliner over France.
The Johannesburg-bound flight from Heathrow was suddenly forced to climb to avoid an Aerolineas Argentinas A340 passenger jet.
Aviation insiders said the planes had allegedly been put on to the same flight path by French air traffic controllers.


The <ACRONYM title="British Airways">BA</ACRONYM> captain took immediate evasive action to climb steeply and bank right to avoid the other plane, an Aerolineas Argentinas 747, near the Mediterranean.
Once the emergency was over, the captain went into the cabin to calm passengers. <ACRONYM title="British Airways">BA</ACRONYM> later confirmed there had been 292 passengers and 18 crew on board its plane.
One <ACRONYM title="British Airways">BA</ACRONYM> eye-witnesses told colleagues: "It was a very close run thing. The two aircraft were put on the same flight path by French air traffic control in Marseilles.
"Passengers at the rear of the aircraft saw the other plane approaching and were very frightened. The captain took evasive action by going into a steep climb and turning right.

"French air traffic control is said to be to blame for putting them on the same flight level on a collision course. It happened a few weeks ago, but has been hushed up."

<ACRONYM title="British Airways">BA</ACRONYM> declined to say at what altitude or on what bearing the two planes were when the near-miss occurred.
A spokesman said: "Flight crew on the BA55 from London Heathrow to Johannesburg received a TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) warning while on route.
"Our crew are trained to deal with such an event and they took the required action.
"Safely is paramount to British Airways and we would never compromise it. Our aircraft are fitted with TCAS to ensure that should this type of event occur the flight crew have plenty of warning to take avoidance action.

Aerolineas Argentinas confirmed it had a record of "an incident" involving an Airbus A340 travelling from Rome to Buenos Aires.

<U>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv..._article_id=492128&in_page_id=1770</U>

In Spanish:
<U>http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/11/07/um/m-01535481.htm</U>






<세줄요약>
BA의 744와 AR의 A340이 프랑스 상공에서 충돌할 뻔 함
프랑스 공중관제센터에서 같은 코스, 같은 비행고도를 지시
BA 탑승객들, 갑자기 비행기가 접근해와서 놀라 자빠지는 줄 알았다고....


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