A private jet flying off the coast of Venezuela reported that it narrowly avoided a midair collision with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Saturday, marking the second such incident since Friday. The pilots of the Falcon 900EX, over the Caribbean en route from Aruba to Miami, alerted air traffic control in Curaçao of the close encounter around 26,000 feet.
“They were really close,” one of the pilots radioed, according to a CNN report. “We were climbing right into him.” The pilot described the other aircraft as “big,” estimating it to be similar in size to a Boeing 767 or 777.
The near-miss came just one day after JetBlue Flight 1112, traveling from Curaçao to New York’s JFK Airport, was forced to halt its climb to avoid a U.S. Air Force tanker that…
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