Near Miss at JFK

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Air Canada from Toronto involved in near-miss at New York airport, FAA says | CBC Accessibility

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reports a near-miss incident involving an Air Canada jet at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday.

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[Count de Bastrop]

One aircraft overshot and swung too wide turning onto the approach path. I've done it ... but not since pilot training. He was probably trying to give his passengers a smooth ride and didn't want to bank it up too much to make the turn. I once came much closer to an airliner than this, but the FAA refused to accept my near-miss report because we were (according to them) more than 500 feet vertically separated. Looked closer than 500 feet to me, and directly overhead. Oh well, no harm: no foul, I guess. This "near miss" at JFK was not that big a deal - pilot error, seen and corrected. (IMO).