Near Miss & TCAS Activation over Gold Coast

[Greg Hyde]

Near Miss & TCAS Activation over Gold Coast

Loss of separation involving Airbus A330, 9M-XXS and Airbus A320, VH-VFO near Gold Coast Airport, Qld on 21 July 2016

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-084/

[Martin Buzzell]

The Heraldsun in Melbourne ran a half page story on it. You can guess the headline.

[MarkR]

Air Asia X have not had a happy time with OOL ops, two incidents of flying below LSALT and now this.

FR24 makes for interesting playback viewing
https://www.flightradar24.com/2016-07-21/01:39/12x/JST630/a683fd4

Have not listened to the audio, if Air Asia and Jetstar were at assigned altitudes of 4000 and 5000 respectively then I don't see a problem, vertical separation exists and it's also outside of the traffic advisory threshold for TCAS, let alone the resolution advisory threshold.

[Greg Hyde]

From Ch7news last night (if it can be believed) Air Asia X had climbed above their assigned altitude.