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How One Tweet Started Fake “Near Miss” Stories
On February 24, a number of aviation social media accounts and news outlets broke a story about a supposedly serious runway incursion at Johannesburg's OR Tambo Airport in South Africa. They painted the 'incident' as having potentially serious consequences, labeling it as a 'near miss'. It turns out that was far from the truth. (www.gatechecked.com) More...
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I'm going out on a limb and accusing Aeroexplorer of starting the whole thing.;)
Most of the plane tracker sites can be very misleading, as instead of only showing planes at the reported locations from ADSB data, they aim to give a smooth animation between points. When data is not recieved there are changes in speed or direction, aircraft can appear to travelling along a completely different path to reality, before eventually they snap back when an ADSB location is received.
I've seen plenty of what looks like near misses in the air or on the ground, even planes seemingly taxing through therminal buildings, until they suddenly jump back to where they actually are.
I've seen plenty of what looks like near misses in the air or on the ground, even planes seemingly taxing through therminal buildings, until they suddenly jump back to where they actually are.
Well , we are not the going to discuss “ The Definition “ of Near-Miss : if one goes to the dictionary, you would see for yourself that it Means What it Means:
Close call / Near collision or something that falls short of connecting
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The biggest nightmare for a “ Pilot “ At Times we don’t have a visual. Should one Know , It very common to have “ A near-Miss” incidents especially on the Ground .That Would include, Push- back , with or Without Wing- Walkers, Land and Hold- Short , Incursions, Mistakes by other Crew Members or Controllers.
If we are to discuss the Near- Miss reference Aviation Safety close calls , There are experienced By our Follow crew Members Everywhere and Everyday .
If we had Advertise each and every single “ Near- Miss incidents we won’t be Able to have any passengers on our planes , especially for people with fear of flying.
A Big shoutout for our Towers , Controllers and our follow Pilots .
Keep our ground and skies Safe .
Close call / Near collision or something that falls short of connecting
.
The biggest nightmare for a “ Pilot “ At Times we don’t have a visual. Should one Know , It very common to have “ A near-Miss” incidents especially on the Ground .That Would include, Push- back , with or Without Wing- Walkers, Land and Hold- Short , Incursions, Mistakes by other Crew Members or Controllers.
If we are to discuss the Near- Miss reference Aviation Safety close calls , There are experienced By our Follow crew Members Everywhere and Everyday .
If we had Advertise each and every single “ Near- Miss incidents we won’t be Able to have any passengers on our planes , especially for people with fear of flying.
A Big shoutout for our Towers , Controllers and our follow Pilots .
Keep our ground and skies Safe .
That is one reason I dumped Twitter a LONG time AGO! they are nothing more than Fake News!
Twitter isn't a source of news. Its a cesspool of nonsense, half truths and rumors. If one gets their news from Twitter(X) they are useful idiots.
I would call them Useless Idiots!
...wondering if you said the same thing about X (Twitter) under the old management...as they were deleting comments, hiding the truth, blocking and throttling members, etc, etc, etc??? Not accusing, just wondering? (By the way, I agree on the cesspool comment)
No, they wouldn't have! You know that and I know that, and they know as well, they just don't care!
