Train driver reports near miss, with a plane!

[markis10]

Never had separation minima for trains VS planes when I was an ATC officer!

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A COAL train driver has reported a near miss with a plane in Queensland.

The Aurizon train was travelling between Blaxland and Koomi east of Dalby about 8.40am Tuesday when the crop duster flew within 15m of the fully-laden train at eye level.


A collision was avoided, but the two drivers were quite shaken by the unexpected incident.

 

[Fruitcake]

Never had separation minima for trains VS planes when I was an ATC officer!

Well, I'm guessing that means the railway line across the runway at Mascot that caused an Ansett DC-3 some grief back in the early '50s was gone long before your career started .

 

[SeatBackForward]

Why does this remind me of that US navy warship vs Lighthouse joke?

 

[sjd]

Well, I'm guessing that means the railway line across the runway at Mascot that caused an Ansett DC-3 some grief back in the early '50s was gone long before your career started .

Just googled that. Extraordinary occurrence. Interestingly that rail line is still there at Mascot (in the position it was moved too ten years after the Ansett incident.)

 

[AVC]

A coal train vs crop duster collision can only have one winner.

What, did those guys think they dust crops at a thousand feet?