Two passengers aboard a United Airlines flight were injured when their plane, bound for San Francisco, slowed its descent to avoid a midair collision on Sept. 19, the airline said on Tuesday.
United Flight 2428 from Newark, New Jersey, responded to an onboard alert at around 12.45 p.m. local time within Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center Airspace that “another aircraft was in the vicinity,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told The Epoch Times.
The plane was descending with the seatbelt sign on but “slowed its descent to account for another aircraft at a lower altitude,” the airline said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times. The flight landed safely at San Francisco International Airport….