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March 28th 07, 10:37 PM
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Near miss from space junk.
RomeoMike 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 does he know how far away it was? Does the Airbus have radar that would measure the distance? It would be impossible to tell visually. Maybe he timed the difference from when he saw it and when he heard it. Hell I don't know I'm just passing the story along. 
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