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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 20:24 08/02/2007 Airports Authority confirms near-miss at Ben-Gurion Airport By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press A mid-air collision between Israeli and Spanish airliners at Ben-Gurion International Airport was averted before sundown Thursday, an Airports Authority official said. An El Al plane was approaching the runway for landing when an Iberian Airlines plane suddenly turned into its path, Arieh Gilad told Channel 2 television. He said the El Al airliner managed to avoid the other plane when they were around two kilometers apart, 20 seconds from a collision. Advertisement The vice president of operations at El Al, Captain Lior Yavor, said that the incident took place at 14:45 Thursday afternoon, when an El Al Boeing 767 from Toronto carrying 170 passengers was coming in to land. The El Al pilot spotted the Iberia Airlines plane, which was next in the queue to land, reducing its altitude and approaching his jet. The El Al pilots turned their plane to the right, to put some distance between the two aircraft. Yavor said that the incident was caused by a "serious error on the part of the Iberia pilot." Even so, he added, "there was at no time any danger to the passengers, crew or plane." Bookmark to del.icio.us Bored with Israel A study shows U.S. Jews don't feel it's important to care about the Holy Land. League of their own The PA's first unit of policewomen direct traffic in the West Bank.   1.   Reminds me of a conversation by Air Traffic Control 18:40  |  Chris Linthwaite 08/02/07   2.   El-Al pilots 18:57  |  MI Quacker 08/02/07   3.   sad 20:05  |  Daniel 08/02/07   4.   MI Quacker 20:13  |  Mark Lincoln 08/02/07   5.   iberia does it again? 20:16  |  nadav 08/02/07   6.   near-miss or nuclear mess 20:21  |  observer 08/02/07   7.   Iberia pilots 20:22  |  Ariel S. 08/02/07   8.   VP of El Al please note this is not the only time 20:39  |  Yoel 08/02/07   9.   near-miss or nuclear mess 20:46  |  observer 08/02/07   10.   Mark Lincoln - what are you talking about? 20:47  |  Ryan 08/02/07   11.   Same/ similar experience 21:01  |  Mark 08/02/07   12.   # 9 BLABER??? 21:33  |  EVEN 08/02/07   13.   Thank you, El Al 22:36  |  Bruce R. 08/02/07   14.   TIME TO THINK AND THANK 22:53  |  sam el llanito 08/02/07   15.   Sam it`s time to look at the air controllers not the pilots 23:12  |  Yoel 08/02/07   16.   BANG ON YOEL 23:22  |  SAM 08/02/07   17.   Ryan - I guess I must have misunder stood 00:53  |  Mark Lincoln 09/02/07   18.   Iberia near-miss 01:02  |  Dwido 09/02/07   19.   airline 01:06  |  ralph 09/02/07   20.   May not be the pilots at all 01:12  |  Jerusalem Shmuel 09/02/07   21.   Airprox - not rare 03:07  |  Michael 09/02/07   22.   el al =el best 03:31  |  eddy 09/02/07   23.   we`ve had many near misses here in US too 17:08  |  T A Sheppard 09/02/07   24.   ATC at fault? 00:27  |  ATC Spain 13/12/07

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