Helicopter plane close proximity near miss

[saaby93]

I cant work this out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonsh...
the chinooks flying along with an SAA5 on its left
The SAA5 sees two lights ahead and banks left
The chinook banks left too
What was the plane with the two lights

[Eric Mc]

Your English is confusing me.

I read the article and understood it to mean that the Chinook and the AA5 were approaching head on but didn't see each other until they were fairly close. The two lights seen by the AA5 pilot were the twin landing lights on the nose of the Chinook.

You can see them shining in this picture -

[saaby93]

Eric Mc said:

Your English is confusing me.

I read the article and understood it to mean that the Chinook and the AA5 were approaching head on

Thats what I assumed until I read the article

beeb said:

The Chinook pilot reported the incident to the board, which happened at 17:50 BST on 20 August last year.

He told investigators that he was flying at 1,800 ft (549m) when he noticed a blue and white plane, which was a Grumman AA5, flying close to him on his left-hand side.

The AA5 was flying on his left?

[Eric Mc]

Maybe it overtook him and then turned in.

The Chinook is camouflaged, so may not have been seen by the AA5 pilot.

[Steve_D]

I read the artical to mean they both saw the approaching lights and both took the same action to bank left.

Steve

[markmullen]

In a situation like that in a boat everyone turns to starboard, to avoid turning into one another, is that not the case in aviation?

[MarkwG]

saaby93 said:

beeb said:

The Chinook pilot reported the incident to the board, which happened at 17:50 BST on 20 August last year.

He told investigators that he was flying at 1,800 ft (549m) when he noticed a blue and white plane, which was a Grumman AA5, flying close to him on his left-hand side.

The AA5 was flying on his left?

The BBC got it wrong, the Chinook was in the 11 o'clock of the AA5, the AA5 in the 1 o'clock of the Chinook. The AA5 saw the Chinook, turned more left to keep him on the right, the Chinook saw him late, didn't appreciate he'd already turned & turned hard left, away from him - http://www.airproxboard.org.uk/docs/423/2015147.pd...

[Beanie]

markmullen said:

In a situation like that in a boat everyone turns to starboard, to avoid turning into one another, is that not the case in aviation?

Yes same in aviation