Near Miss / Thank You

[captkel]

I heard this on Wednesday morning 03/18/10 around 15:45 UTC on the Miami Center Bimini Sector Feed.
It shook me up a little. Went back and got it, I edited it for content.    Note: The reception wasn't at it's best that day.  

KEL

[jeffcyn]

Anyone have audio of the actual event?

[captkel]

Anyone have audio of the actual event?

good idea, I'll have to see if it's still available and figure out the time

[captkel]

Anyone have audio of the actual event?

good idea, I'll have to see if it's still available and figure out the time

I checked, the archives are only kept for 14 days here. will check the FAA for a mp3.

[Heading090]

Something does not make sense in this story.
AAL couldn't see the small aircraft on TCAS (=no altitude reporting transponder) but ATC saw him and gave AAL vertical avoiding action (=altitude reporting transponder).
 

[captkel]

that crossed my mind too

[Windtee]

No TCAS alert, I assume? Strange. At the very least... they're all alive to tell the story. Good thing.

[VampyreGTX]

This is the Flight in question, AAL1593, MCO to MIA with flight times, etc.:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL1593/history/20100310/1641Z/KMCO/KMIA


What probably happened was the other plane had no altitude reporting, but ATC had him on their radar.  They probably just gave a traffic call, unknown altitude, to the AAL flight.  They knew to look in that direction and saw the plan in time to avoid the collision.