I was outside of my home tonight and around 5:49PM and I witnessed what looked to be two aircraft come within a few thousand feet of each other while making a turn. An aircraft similar to a Gulfstream G650 was making a final turn for landing above Byram CT going to Westchester airport (HPN). At the same time, an aircraft of what appeared to be an A320 reticently taken off from LaGuardia (LGA) making a delayed turn to the East after takeoff. I know the human brain can easily preserve two aircraft in the sky being close to each other while still being a great distance apart, but the aircraft were in the 3 to 4 thousand feet area and I could see them clear as day.
Shortly thereafter I came to FlightTrader24 to rewind the feed and see if I could identify the aircraft and verify their distance apart from one another, but the recorded feed in my area seems to be a little blinky and I wasn't able to identify the flight numbers. Does the FAA record near miss events and make them publicly available? I would like to see if I was seeing an illusion or if I did indeed whiteness two aircraft coming that close to each other.
Shortly thereafter I came to FlightTrader24 to rewind the feed and see if I could identify the aircraft and verify their distance apart from one another, but the recorded feed in my area seems to be a little blinky and I wasn't able to identify the flight numbers. Does the FAA record near miss events and make them publicly available? I would like to see if I was seeing an illusion or if I did indeed whiteness two aircraft coming that close to each other.
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