IAF aircraft, Jet plane almost collide

Mumbai: Barely three months after a near-miss incident over Rajkot involving an Indian Air Force (IAF) jet and a civilian aircraft, another near-miss occurred last week when a Jet Airways ATR 72-500 came within about two nautical miles—around five seconds away—of a Jaguar strike aircraft.
According to sources, on January 4, the Jet Airways' Rajkot-Mumbai flight (9W 3410), which was carrying about 50 passengers, was about 102 nautical miles from Mumbai when the Traffic Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS) in its cockpit set off an alarm.
"If the Jaguar had not climbed and the TCAS warning system had instructed the Jet pilots to climb, then a crash would have surely occurred, as an ATR craft cannot gain altitude that fast," said the source.
A Jet Airways' spokesperson confirmed the incident. A senior official of the Indian Air Force, Delhi, refuted claims that they were at fault.
There were no answers from the IAF on whether the Jaguar pilots informed the Mumbai ATC before descending to 15,000 feet.
13/01/07 Manju V/Times of India

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