Near Miss & TCAS Activation over Gold Coast
 

Near Miss & TCAS Activation over Gold Coast

Loss of separation involving Airbus A330, 9M-XXS and Airbus A320, VH-VFO near Gold Coast Airport, Qld on 21 July 2016

http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...r/ao-2016-084/

The Heraldsun in Melbourne ran a half page story on it. You can guess the headline.

Air Asia X have not had a happy time with OOL ops, two incidents of flying below LSALT and now this.

FR24 makes for interesting playback viewing
https://www.flightradar24.com/2016-0...JST630/a683fd4

Have not listened to the audio, if Air Asia and Jetstar were at assigned altitudes of 4000 and 5000 respectively then I don't see a problem, vertical separation exists and it's also outside of the traffic advisory threshold for TCAS, let alone the resolution advisory threshold.

From Ch7news last night (if it can be believed) Air Asia X had climbed above their assigned altitude.