yeah, yeah, yeah...and heaven knows the ATC controller couldn't possibly have issued a bad altitude assignment. Lot's of possibilities here, thinking I won't cast any blame until a few more facts come out.

Anyway, here's their flightpath:

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They didn't press into Buckeye MOA or anything, so it'll be interesting to hear the final result. Maybe they were near an AR track like Cliffy170 offered up. Pre-AIFF days a CRJ and a KC-135 make a pretty similar radar return. Odds are F-16 pilots were aware of the ASA bubbas and not going to hit them.

In a different life a buddy of mine inadvertantly caused an airliner to have a TCAS RA by having an extremely high rate of climb directly underneath. It was during a big 4vX (that's air-air stuff for the uninitiated). Airliner was right on his assigned altitude over the top of the MOA, and my buddy never went out the top of the MOA.