An local aviation expert is cautioning against any alarm in the wake of a near mid-air collision involving 368 passengers over Phoenix on Saturday.
Embry-Riddle assistant professor Cary Grant has seen the video and says that neither plane—a Delta flight from Detroit and a United flight from San Francisco—was in any immediate danger when the collision warning sounded in the cockpit.
Grant likens the situation to the warning your car might give you if you get too close to another vehicle. He says it was probably the result of a controller being distracted in the tower.
***Stock image of Boeing 737 similar to the plane involved in the near miss.