The pilot received an automated alert about another aircraft at the same altitude and took 'evasive action,' the FAA said in a statement.
Jerrica Thacker, 21, was on the Allegiant flight, which was heading to Lexington, Kentucky, with her twin sister, her sister's boyfriend and her aunt, returning from a six-day cruise in the Bahamas.
"I felt the plane actually make its turn to go back toward Fort Lauderdale," she said."About 15 minutes later, the pilot comes back on the intercom, and he says, 'Unfortunately, we have turned back toward Fort Lauderdale. I had to make an abrupt maneuver to avoid another aircraft.'" Neither the FAA nor Allegiant answered questions about the flight attendant's recovery, nor how close the aircrafts actually came. But longtime commercial airline pilot and Air Force veteran Dan Stratman said the kind of alert of proximity received by both pilots is not one of a set distance across all aircrafts.
"In this case, that seems to be the most likely scenario, that the two airplanes were on a collision course and the controller might not have remembered that. Luckily, the equipment took over and kept the disaster from happening," Stratman said."This year has been a bad year, and there's been a spike in near-misses, both in the air and on the ground, on runways. The FAA has convened some meetings to try to figure out what's going on.
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