The close-call moment when an American Airlines pilot had to abruptly yank the plane up 700 feet to avoid colliding with a United flight midair.

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The article makes it sound far more life threatening than it actually was. Modern planes have tech that allows them to talk to each other in case something like this happens. One plane will give instructions to ascend and the other gives instructions to decend.
 

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In the last year or so, there have been a few times where planes I've been on have been much, much closer to other planes than I ever recall. Including one time where my plane was flying parallel to another at the same altitude close enough to see the windows on the other plane.

The 1st thing that crossed my mind was "I wonder if ATC is overloaded" so it's interesting to see that called out here.
 

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I forget which poster but he was tryna put y’all onto ATC positions. Y’all better get on it now. Money to be made
 

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Brooklyn keeps on taking it.
But you can survive in a car :ufdup:

A plane crash is like sticking ya genitals in a glory hole...

Could be a woman
A maniac with garden shears
Or a man
A car is so much more dangerous that you would still die in a car crash before you die in a plane.

Put it like this you’d get into 5 fender benders and then get murked by a drunk before dying in a plane lol
 

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But you can survive in a car :ufdup:

A plane crash is like sticking ya genitals in a glory hole...

Could be a woman
A maniac with garden shears
Or a man
33% chance of success:jbhmm:











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