• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AFAIK “near” means “in a minute’s time, you might be within a thousand feet of another aircraft”.

    Which means 99.99% of the time they didn’t “need” to divert course, but they did out of an abundance of caution.