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Flights too close for comfort
The Gazette
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Air Transat Flight 996, an Airbus 310 taking off for Edmonton
from Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Dorval,
"overshot its allocated altitude of 19,000 feet" around 11 a.m. on
Monday, Air Transat spokesperson Jean-Michel Laberge said.
A traffic alert and collision-avoidance system in the Air Transat
cockpit was apparently triggered by an Air Canada regional jet
descending to 20,000 feet about eight kilometres away, Laberge said,
and "we've confirmed that a loss of (mandatory) separation took
place, to what extent we don't know yet."
The incident is being handled via an internal investigation
launched after "the pilot-in-command descended to the correct
altitude immediately," Laberge said.
"At no time was the security of the aircraft imperilled," he said.
Air Canada Flight 193, an ERJ-190, was understood to have been on
its way from St. John's, N.L., to Ottawa at the time.