ATC's error causes EVA Air 77W near miss near LAX

[S V Choong 4]

ATC error causes near miss for EVA Air flight in California

A mistake by an air traffic controller sent a plane close to mountains and in the flight path of another jet, according a news report.

ABC7 News reports an EVA Air Boeing 777 was instructed to turn left instead of right by a San Diego air traffic controller, sending it close to mountains above Altadena, CA.

The plane had just taken off from Los Angeles heading to Taipei.

That also took it toward an Air Canada plane which had just left LAX.

According to audio transcripts, San Diego ATC can be heard saying: "EVA 015 Heavy, what are you doing? Turn southbound now, southbound now. Stop your climb."

This instruction was repeated several times, the report says.

It took more than a minute for crew to heed the warning and change direction.

The early Friday incident played out above the San Gabriel Valley during a heavy rainstorm.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the EVA jet did not come close enough to the other plane to warrant evasive action but a FAA investigation will be conducted to see if it flew too close to the mountains.

Referring to the air traffic controller, the FAA's Ian Gregor said: "She meant to tell the pilot to make a right turn to a 180-degree heading. The pilot turned to the left. The controller quickly realized EVA was turning in the wrong direction. She took immediate action to keep EVA safely separated from an Air Canada jet that had departed LAX off the north runway complex.''

http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature.php?news_id=2025149

[JuliusWong 0]

For graphic presentation: http://www.jacdec.de/2016/12/20/2016-12-16-eva-air-b777-flew-astray-and-close-to-terrain-east-of-los-angeles/

[S V Choong 4]

For graphic presentation: http://www.jacdec.de/2016/12/20/2016-12-16-eva-air-b777-flew-astray-and-close-to-terrain-east-of-los-angeles/

 

Whoa, close shave??

[Alif A. F. 0]

Two years ago while lazying around surfing FR24 during a daytime windy rainstorm, saw a China Airlines A330 was descending towards Runway 20, but when it passed above Tuaran, it suddenly turned to east directly on course towards Mt Kinabalu region presumably to wait for better weather condition at the airport. Quite anxious observing that plane headed that direction, though I am pretty sure that was just me. Not sure if that manouvre ever discussed internally among local ATCs.

[JuliusWong 0]

Whoa, close shave??

Yes indeed, have the pilot not realised, we will be seeing charred remains of 353 pax and tens of crew in today's paper....

[Craig 0]

I was checking out FR24 on Friday when it happened (not related to BR15) but that was a weird night with both departures and arrivals to the east and west. Heavies to Asia/Australia were using 7R for departure whilst arrivals were using 24L/R. Rain or easterly winds kinda screw things up a little at LAX.

Edited December 25, 2016 by Craig

[S V Choong 4]

How come pilots are still flying in the dark and unaware of their surroundings? I thought we don't need to rely on human as much!?