SriLankan Airlines praises pilots for averting mid-air collision with British Airways flight over Turkey

Srilankan Airlines on Wednesday praised its pilots for safely commandeering a flight from London to Colombo on Monday after experiences emerged that an plane of the nationwide service averted a attainable mid-air collision with a British Airways flight over Turkey which risked the lives of over 500 passengers.

The nationwide service stated that the “vigilance of the pilots and the state-of-the-art communication and surveillance system onboard the aircraft enabled safe passage for UL 504” on June 13.

“Further, SriLankan Airlines commends the timely action of the pilots operating UL 504, which ensured the safety of all passengers, crew and equipment onboard UL 504,” the airline stated in a press release.

The clarification was issued after media experiences claimed that UL 504, flying from London to Colombo, averted its greatest attainable mid-air collision whereas in Turkish airspace.

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The experiences stated the Airbus A333 plane carrying 275 passengers had entered the Turkish Airspace after leaving Heathrow en path to Colombo.

The Srilankan flight had been advised to climb to 35,000 toes from the 33,000 toes they have been flying at.

Right then, the Srilankan flight detected a British Airways flight with greater than 250 individuals on board simply 15 miles away from them flying at 35,000 toes and knowledgeable the air site visitors management at Ankara.

The Srilankan pilots refused to climb regardless of being cleared twice erroneously by the Ankara air site visitors management.

Minutes later, the air site visitors responded urgently, informing the Srilankan flight to not climb as there was already a flight proper above at 35,000 toes, a British Airways flight to Dubai.

If the UL captain had climbed to the requested peak, the UL flight would have confronted a mid-on collision with the British Airways flight, because it was flying at a quicker pace than the UL flight, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.

After touchdown on the Bandaranaike International Airport right here, the passengers safely disembarked from the flight together with the crew and a report on the incident was filed, it added.