Plane steers toward path of other flight near Portland airport
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The aircrafts were about 1,800 feet apart from each horizontally and had 250 feet of space between them vertically, the newspaper estimated. Alaska Airlines flight 1299 then started to veer towards SkyWest Airlines flight 3978 after its pilot appeared to confuse its instruction from the air traffic controller and made a right turn instead of keeping the plane straight.Visibility at the time of the incident was less than a mile as the area was reportedly inundated with heavy rain and mist.
The Alaskan flight was directed by the air traffic controller to maintain the “runway heading” path while the SkyWest plane was told to make a right turn. Instead, the apparently confused pilot of flight 1299 repeated the instructions to the other plane and began heading right, while flight 3978 continued to head straight.
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