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4:34 CAT | 10 Sep 2018
Image: The East African
Ethiopian and Italian passengers planes nearly crashed in Kenyan airspace on 30 August, Kenyan media reports.
The collision was averted when the pilot of one of the planes made a sudden climb to avoid the oncoming flight, the reports.
A news site has tweeted a video of the near-collision between the two boeings:
How Ethiopian and Italian passenger planes missed each other by a whisker in Kenyan airspace (Naivasha), averting potentially one of the world’s worst aviation disasters. pic.twitter.com/zXfCSbmOR3
— Nairobi News (@Nairobi_News) September 10, 2018
Kenyan officials blamed a strike by air traffic controllers at Ethiopia’s main international airport in Addis Ababa for the near-collision, The East African reports on its news site.
A pilot, however, said the planes were in Kenyan airspace, and it was the responsibility of Kenya’s air traffic controllers to guide the planes, the news site reports.
Source: BBC
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