Originally published on October 23, 2013 <br /><br />Two passenger planes carrying a total of 1,000 people narrowly averted a collision over Scotland in June, a report by a British flight safety watchdog has revealed, according to the Scotsman newspaper.<br /><br />The pilots of the two Boeing 747s were warned to take immediate evasive action as the planes' paths gradually converged on June 23. <br /><br />They failed to properly follow instructions, either having "misheard or misinterpreted" them read the UK Airprox Board report, and instead flew closer.<br /><br />"It was possible that the crews may have been distracted because this would have been about the time that they would have been receiving their Oceanic clearances on data-link," said Airprox in its findings.<br /><br />"Another possibility mooted by an airline-pilot member was that, having settled into their trans-Atlantic routine, it was unusual for pilots to be issued with avoiding action instructions at that altitude and location.<br /><br />"Expecting only routine information to be transmitted at that time, they may have been perplexed by the avoiding action information and instinctively responded without properly assimilating it."<br /><br />The transatlantic planes were roughly 30 miles north of Glasgow and were 10 nautical miles apart horizontally at the time of the first alert. <br /><br />Within a minute, they were within three miles of each other and at one point the aircrafts came within 100ft vertically. <br /><br />A collision was avoided when both pilots, physically seeing the other aircraft, took evasive action, one climbing and the other descending.<br /><br />The report concluded that both flight crews had taken each others' instructions.<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />TomoNews is your daily source for top animated news. We've combined animation and video footage with a snarky personality to bring you the biggest and best stories from around the world.<br /><br />For news that's fun and never boring, visit our channel:<br />https://www.youtube.com/user/TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Subscribe to stay updated on all the top stories:<br />http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TomoNewsUS<br /><br />Stay connected with us here:<br />Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS<br />Google+ http://gplus.to/TomoNewsUS
