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Tornado Pilot Narrowly Avoids Mid-Air With Glider

Military Jet Was On A Low-Level Training Mission

The pilot of a Tornado fighter jet reportedly avoided colliding with a glider by a vertical separation of 100 feet in Aviemore in Scotland last week.

The RAF Tornado jet was on a low-level refueling and weapons training mission, according to a report in the U.K. newspaper the Daily Record and Sunday Mail. The glider and the Tornado were about 500 yards apart when the Tornado pilot saw the other aircraft and executed a maneuver called a "bunt" ... an inverted loop ... which took him just 100 feet below the slow-moving aircraft.

The Tornado pilot told the U.K. Airprox (Air Proximity) Board that the risk of collision was "very high" in the situation. The UKAP said that both pilots might have been fatally injured if the aircraft had collided.

The Tornado pilot said the white glider was "difficult to pick out" against the sky.

(Tornado pictured in file photo)

FMI: www.airproxboard.org.uk

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