bovingdon stack

The Bovingdon stack is a section of airspace to the north west of London where inbound planes to London Heathrow Airport, which is 20 miles (30 km) to the south, are held. It lies above the villages of Bovingdon and Chesham, and is based on the VOR navigational beacon BNN which is sited on the former RAF airfield at Bovingdon. At busy times on a clear day a dozen planes may be seen circling overhead. On December 1st, 2003, at 6 am, a major disaster in the stack was averted with just seconds to spare. An air traffic controller was blamed by a later enquiry for misdirecting traffic when he ordered a United Airlines Boeing 777 into a part of the stack already occupied by a similar British Airways plane. The two planes, carrying 500 passengers, came within 600 feet of each other.

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Description of air traffic control procedures over northwest London

*A real life transcript of air traffic control in the area

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