Old 11-17-2009, 06:26 AM
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Just had an incident where a near mid-air collision was reported near San Clemente between a C-40 and an F/A-18. The C-40 was on the Tacan approach into the airport and tower cleared the Hornet in for the overhead. The Hornet had the C-40 in sight and came into the break. The problem was that the C-40s TCAS doesn't recognize the type of aircraft (or operating restrictions/limitation/or abilities of course) and inside 1300' issued an RA to descend as the Hornet passed overhead for the break. This is a common occurance at military fields that opearte jet aircraft.

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