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Near miss from space junk.



 
 
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Old March 29th 07, 12:30 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Near miss from space junk.

Rear view mirror?

Dan Luke wrote:

"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.



How did he see stuff behind him?




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