An Allegiant Airlines flight and a private jet avoided a near-collision on Sunday at over 20,000 feet in the air. NBC News’ Tom Costello has more on the moment that injured a flight attendant and terrified passengers.
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Gotta pay people more than $16 or $17 an hour, folks! This is getting ridiculous!
The pilot is a hero
The moral of the story is don’t travel to Florida…. 🤡
Commercial airplanes are still safer than motor vehicles. Approximately 15,000 car accidents occur in the U.S. each day. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of injury and death in the U.S. So, the lady who decided to drive to Kentucky instead had a greater odds of being injured or killed in a motor vehicle accident. I’ve taken countless domestic and international flights, mostly to the African continent and the Caribbean.
No coverage of the UFO HEARING yet? Such an important Disclosure? Dave Grusch is a hero
Scary stuff, but the technology worked as designed. Shouldn’t need to rely on the last line of defense, but nonetheless it worked. Driving collisions happen everywhere, every day and the fact a near miss makes national news is a testament to how far the airline industry has come.
Traffic controller needs to be fired.. Need AI to take over these responsibilities
Scary stuff. This should not happen in America of all places. So many of these scary flight incidents recently. I don’t blame her for saying she may go the rest of her life without flying again.
He’s 21? Looks 12
I’m the opposite of the passenger that got off and says she’ll never fly again. For me, the fact that the technology (TCAS) worked as designed and avoided the collision just makes me feel even safer. I know that even if an ATC makes a mistake, TCAS is there to catch it.
butch cut being a little over dramatic but that’s expected
Thank God for safety features like TCAS. Else hundreds would be dead and this would unfortunately be a future episode of “Air Disasters”
I wish we’d hire humans based on their skills and abilities rather than ticking certain boxes unrelated to skill on the clipboard.
Almost gol flight 1907….
History is almost repeating
Why does most stories like this involve a buisness class jet? Feel like something should be looked at here…
If ocean gate made planes this woulda have ….. nvm
In aviation, there is no single point of failure. There is redundancy to literally everything. You name it. From number of engines, hydraulic systems, computers, pilots, heck even obnoxious Karen’s 💀
passengers should sue for emotional damage
I literally a month ago was on Allegiant at that same airport Ft. Lauderdale Hollywood int airport
It’s great no one was hurt but this shouldn’t have even happened in the first place
They need more diversity hires!
Driving back because of one incident and being afraid of an accident is about the most ironic thing ever. You are literally thousands of times more likely to get into an accident driving that distance than you are while flying. In fact, considering that it already happened, it’s even safer to fly back because the odds of an air accident happening twice in a row are extremely low.
Did that kid say he was 21?
Someone’s Definitely Losing their jobs 🤔
GREAT JOB TO THOSE PILOTS 👏👏👏👏👏 i think i can fly This airlines knowing they know how to fly
Aww I feel for them!!! Lots of emotions within minutes would do that to anyone!!
What a freak
Why is this news
Almost pulled a breaking bad there
Flying Allegiant tomorrow to Florida. Reconsidering now
I wonder what the G force was.
Imagine thinking it’s safer to drive from Florida to Kentucky then fly
Hats off to the Pilots. Saved some lives.
Driving is far more dangerous
Flights at that height are on IFR flight plans and should have been separated by air traffic control. This is 100% the fault of the ATC in charge of maintaining separation.
The system should never have had to be activated. Every second of the reasoning and decisions made by the air traffic controllers needs to be scrutinized. Thank goodness the planes didn’t collide!
So each plane’s TCAS knows what direction the other’s TCAS system is gonna tell the pilot to go so that both wont say the same direction?
A TCAS resolution advisory (RA) is designed to _not_ require high G maneuvering, so as to not hurt people and damage planes. Yanking the plane so hard just isn’t necessary UNLESS the crew delays action (or acts opposite to the RA).
I’m curious what heading/direction the Allegiant flight was traveling. Coming from the Caribbean and going to Kentucky I’d assume general direction of flight is N-NW so they should’ve been at an even flight level, like 240 or 220?
@1:56 that is a male right? Doesn’t look or sound like a female
“I was Drunk, I’m Drunk right now…” Denzel 😂
Way to go air traffic controllers! (Insert sarcasm here.) Just glad the “climb activation system kicked in on time! This could have been a catastrophic disaster!
good to see the systems work.
ATC ‘s about to see some serious re-training all over the continent after this, which also good.
TCAS worked but the most important part of this story was undertreated in one sentence at the end of the video. The FAA is looking into whether there was a breakdown in communications between controllers. I’d be interested to know if this was between departure/approach controllers or departure and an en-route controller and if any of them were working alone
Woke hire 🤔
These passengers don’t look at the outcome of the corrective responses. Im not saying it’s good either way, but I would rather have 1 flight attendant hurt, rather than killing the whole flight crew and passengers BOTH on the Airline Jet and Gulfstream at 23,000 feet !!!!!!!!!!
The woman that never will get on a plane again can do so. But one bad experience does not mean everyone will be awful. That is comparable to saying that if you get food poisoning, you will never eat again.
FAA ATC directives meeting quota attainment my guess….
Somebody’s gonna be in trouble.
When you lower the standards for any jobs, this happens!
Why did he say “her” to that Jerrica boy?
Hah. Thats weak
Please use actual professionals when you make news stories! If you gave the Retired Capt more time to explain than the 5 secs you did you would know this was not an extremely close call RAs/TAs happen now and then and no one gets hurt the Allegient pilots didn’t have to pull back that hard. RAs give you warning plenty of time where a 500fpm climb or descent clear you of the traffic. The FA should not have been slammed to the ground in a RA resolution. All about sensational news vs accurate
Pfff….wonder boy cried over a bumpy plane ride 😆
Over two minutes of reporting, and NO explanation for what happened.
should have had REMOTE ID on it .
Y’all need to get you fxcking acts together.
This happened in California back in the 90s. Maybe late 80s.
The person saying they’ll never fly again is so dramatic smh. Should be thankful the planes computer saved either plane even getting close to each other
The same situation happend a few years ago over the amazon region in Brazil , when two american pilots flying an Embraer executive Jet, with the transponder turned off hit the Gol’s Boeing airliner killing all 154 passengers and crew onboard.
Recently the DOJ refused to send them back to Brazil to face justice.
We’re talking about Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino who could land their plane thereafter with minor damages to its wing.
This is what happens when the president appoints career politicians to head the FAA and NTSB instead of seasoned pilots. The number of runway incursions and near collisions has increased at an alarming rate. An aviation tragedy will happen soon and the president will have blood on his hands.
المطلق القذر
زوج البولونية السابق
ابو مرقص الينا
شق حالك بالنص
سامع يا شاطر
خليك ع قدك 👍
Allegiant is definitely a subpar Airline. Flight Attendants are rude & incredibly unprofessional- at least when I’ve flown with Allegiant Airlines
Get back on the horse.
Yet another case of trash bag “journalists” sensationalizing a story for views. This incident definitely involved aircraft getting closer than they should have, but the safety measures in place worked exactly as designed.
Don’t the TCAS system on both flights tell them to climb ? How did the other know to descend ?
Allegiant is the scariest airline I’ve ever flown on. It felt like the plane was going to fall out the sky I was only going from Austin to Orlando and was terrified the whole time.
That’s scary
Good job pilot …that’s private h
Jet is always worry me
Tens of thousands of Americans die in car accidents every year, and yet it’s national news when a plane doesn’t even crash but had a chance of a crash. Air travel is incredibly safe. I know it was scary but that single road trip to Kentucky carried more risk of death than an entire lifetime of air travel.
Hum–
Lies lies every body dies This country lives on lies were under fire on fire on fire long lives the lies.
I’m guessing this was an affirmative action air traffic controller.
This happening in Brazil but unfortunately all the passengers died, and the private jet all survive, until now nobody was punished
It’s Lester Fake News Specialist ! Fake News you can Trust ! @#MAGA
Great that TCAS worked and both pilots reacted promptly, but the root of the incident still needs to be found and remedied.
these kids now day barely get a hard time and no it’s a life time event 9/11 was real and as she/he described it like a rollercoaster😅😅😅😅😅
soft people now days 😅😅😅😅 u survive stop making it just a dramatic moment. also, one thing i don’t get per the passenger she/he said 😅 that it felt like when a rollercoaster goes down pretty fast. the simulator shown the plane going up not down. 🙄🙄🙄🤥🤥🤥
Now air controllers can’t even do their job right, one of the most important jobs that has the most lives in your hands.
I need to fly for the first time next month, this isnt helping. So many bad news or close call stories lately
That’s really unfortunate for that to be her first and only flight. Well on a positive note atleast we know the collision detector works.
She???
She’ll go the rest of her life without flying? Yeah right. I’ll bet she’s on another flight within a year. What an overreaction.
such a snowflake fr
For all those baffled by the fear of flying, just remember that there are people having a meltdown over a doll movie. Does that make sense?
Everybody is complaining about what went wrong whilst not appreciating being alive
I got a number for you to call.
Cry baby Az
For those who don’t know much about aviation, 600 feet per minute is basically NOTHING. The usual commercial aircraft climb with passengers is about 1500 to 2800 feet per second. So 600 feet is literally nothing.
Any surprise that out of all the passengers, they put the butch looking girl on camera?
I see a lawsuit in the works for the girl who spoke about the incident. 🤦🏻♀️ Sue happy world
At what distance can the TCAS on both planes start to talk to each other? Obviously both planes are traveling towards each other very fast so it must kick in while the planes are still about 1 mile away at least.
Aw poor boy I mean girl
tsk :/
The Allegiant Airbus will evoke a climb or descent to avoid another aircraft without pilot intervention. The only time this system would fail is if the other aircraft isn’t using a transponder. The GOL crash in South America was a good example of this. The cockpit of a 737 was separated from the fuselage and they all plummeted to the ground in seconds.
TCAS always goes off PAX just never knows
This is exactly why I’d NEVER get on a pilot-less plane. Autopilot is pure nightmare. 😱
Clear of conflict!