Faulty Mental Model

A Boeing 737 and a Cessna Caravan came within 700 ft vertically and less than a mile horizontally near Ballina (New South Wales, Australia) Byron Gateway Airport, in part because the Caravan pilot had “an incorrect mental model of the traffic situation” and the 737 crew missed the Caravan’s early radio calls, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.

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