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Ethiopian and Italian passengers planes nearly crashed in Kenyan airspace on 29 August, Kenyan media reports.
The collision was averted when the pilot of one of the planes made a sudden climb to avoid the oncoming flight, the reports say.
A news site has tweeted a video of the near-collision between the two boeings:
How Ethiopian and Italian passenger planes missed each other by a whisker in Kenyan airspace (Naivasha), averting potentially one of the world’s worst aviation disasters.
Kenyan officials blamed a strike by air traffic controllers at Ethiopia’s main international airport in Addis Ababa for the near-collision, The East African reports on its news site.
A pilot, however, said the planes were in Kenyan airspace, and it was the responsibility of Kenya’s air traffic controllers to guide the planes, the news site reports
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