This story is a good read – it’s about the passengers on the smaller plane that hit the larger Boeing over the Amazon the other day.
Wow, can we get the movie rights?
Amazing but awful at the same time. Pretty unbelievable.
Sounds to me like someone in ATC made a boo-boo. If I remember IFR rules (not that I’m supposed to btw) then they should have had at least 2,000’ of vertical separation, since they were flying in opposite directions:
Track 000 to 179° - odd flight levels (FL 290, 330, 370, etc.)
Track 180 to 359° - odd flight levels (FL 310, 350, 390, etc.)
Scary. Very scary.
They (the pilots) of both aeroplanes should have had TACAS, the collision avoidance system. I wonder why none of them were using it.