Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
A delayed American Airlines flight and an on-time departure both operated as AA2482 near Phoenix, putting two aircraft on the same air traffic control frequency with identical callsigns. One crew accepted an instruction intended for the other as the aircraft converged with only a few thousand feet of vertical separation.
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A delayed American Airlines flight and an on-time departure both operated as AA2482 near Phoenix, putting two aircraft on the same air traffic control frequency with identical callsigns. One crew accepted an instruction intended for the other as the aircraft converged with only a few thousand feet of vertical separation.
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