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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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We need Mentour Pilot or 74 Gear to make a video tearing apart all the fear mongering in this article (not saying it's totally invalid, but it's massively overblown). But basically, a "near miss" in commercial aviation is "this plane momentarily transgressed the very generous mandated safety distances and triggered a resolution advisory in the cockpit of both aircraft which was complied with immediately." It is by no means equivalent to a "near colission" like they imply. The worst part of the ordeal was probably the reports the pilots and ATC had to file afterward.
Immediately from the headline my first reaction was "well, the rate of actual collisions is near 0", so either they're very good at dodging each other, or what they deem as a "near collision" is actually quite a wide berth.
But then, this is the journalistic integrity we've come to expect from gizmodo.