Near miss for Leeds Bradford Airport bound flight?
26.07.08
At 11:25 on Thursday July 17 a Thomas Cook Airways flight from Faro to Leeds Bradford Airport came within kilometres of disaster, a passenger on board claims. The passenger said that a Thompson’s Airways passenger jet passed within ‘waving distance’ of the packed flight of holiday flight returning from the Algarve.
The passenger told an online news website that he saw the plane pass within what he believed to be about 2 kilometres from his window. He said: ‘It went past too quickly for me to switch my camera on. I’ve never seen a passenger plane pass another so closely. It was certainly within waving distance.'
The plane landed safely at Leeds Bradford Aairport at 12:15. The Portugal News website contacted Faro Airport Thomas Cook Air Traffic Controller Alan Stirk, who denied any knowledge of the near-miss. He said: ‘If that was the case we would have heard from out UK Duty Office, but we have heard nothing’.
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