Major air disaster averted at 35,000 ft

More than 500 passengers were travelling on board a Qatar Airways Boeing and a Condor Airlines Airbus on Friday morning, when the two aircraft were heading towards each other at a height of 35,000 feet off the coast of Karwar.
The Qatar Airways flight 030 was flying from Doha to Melbourne, while Condor Airlines flight 356 was going to Frankfurt from Singapore.
Around 6am on Friday, the pilot of the Condor Airlines noticed on his systems, another aircraft coming from the opposite direction, on the same flight level.
Apparenlty the Condor flight had gone off the radar of the Mumbai ATC in his desperation the Condor pilot alerted another aircraft in the sky, which in turn alerted the Mumbai ATC.
And just in time the ATC signalled the Qatar Airways plane to immediately descend by 3 thousand feet.
10/04/10 Times Now.tv

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