{"id":329731,"date":"2025-12-15T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/outrageous-jetblue-a320-avoids-mid-air-collision-us-tanker-curacao\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:22:10","slug":"outrageous-jetblue-a320-narrowly-avoids-mid-air-collision-with-us-military-tanker-over-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329731","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Outrageous&#8221;: JetBlue A320 Narrowly Avoids Mid-Air Collision With US Military Tanker Over Cura\u00e7ao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"24733\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/jetblue\/\"  >JetBlue<\/a><\/span> Airbus A320 was involved in a serious close-call with a US military refueling <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264989\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tanker\/\"  >tanker<\/a><\/span> flying with its transponder switched off over Cura\u00e7ao. The JetBlue flight crew had to take defensive action to avoid a midair collision with the tanker, which reportedly came within a few miles of the passenger jet at a similar altitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military refueler was flying with its transponder switched off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,429,396,18995,1147,43,7559,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-curacao","category-jetblue","category-safety","category-tanker","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329732,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329731\/revisions\/329732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}