{"id":40363,"date":"2024-05-10T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/near-miss-cp-air-dc-8-broken-tailfin-1971\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:00:12","slug":"close-call-in-sydney-the-near-miss-that-broke-a-cp-air-dc-8-tailfin-in-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=40363","title":{"rendered":"Close Call In Sydney: The Near Miss That Broke A CP Air DC-8 Tailfin In 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Back in the early 1970s, Sydney-Kingsford Smith Airport was almost the site of Australias own Tenerife air disaster. Almost. A misunderstanding in communications from air traffic control saw a very near miss between a departing Boeing 727 flown by Trans Australia Airlines and a CP Air Douglas DC-8. While the two planes sustained extensive damage, a catastrophe was averted, and everyone survived.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation occurred due to confusion regarding air traffic control communications.<\/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":[396,9041,436,1369,9042,408,9043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-accident","category-boeing-727","category-dc-8","category-dc-8-63","category-history","category-trans-australia-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363","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=40363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40364,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40363\/revisions\/40364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}