JetBlue pilot calls Air Force near-miss 'outrageous'
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A JetBlue pilot said a “midair collision” was avoided near Venezuela in an incident the commercial pilot is blaming on the pilot of a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker. “We almost had a midair collision up here,
The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.
Air-ground radio communications have revealed that a JetBlue Airbus A320 crew in the Caribbean was startled by a US Air Force tanker in their vicinity which apparently did not have its transponder active.