Thread: Midair Crash
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Old 09-08-2006, 09:24 AM
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It wouldn't suprise me any if blame was put on the Hawker crew for failing to "see and avoid".

What a bunch of crap. It is freaking hard to see a glider, and who know how it approached the Hawker.

I was curising along oneday in a C90,low altitude going into some of the world's busiest airspace, and all of a sudden a glider came up from under the nose and was right in front of us !! ATC knew and saw nothing. We banked hard right and missed.

Thankfully, we were on an empty positioning leg, and we were not heads down in the cockpit or looking in a different direction.

Gliders can do their thing all they want--I think it's great. But being invisible and nordo around class B airports when you are mixing with arriving and departing aircraft?????????????

After seeing the pic of the panel, I think the crew in the Hawker displayed some airmanship.

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