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March 28th 07, 06:40 PM
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Near miss from space junk.
"Gig 601XL Builder" wrote:
The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm last night. "Dan Luke" wrote: How did he see stuff behind him? In his rear view mirror, of course! ;-) 
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