Passengers injured in mid-air near miss
A Portuguese airliner dived sharply to avoid a mid-air collision with a smaller aircraft near the Azores Islands today, injuring 23 passengers and two crew.
The TAP Air Portugal Airbus A310, carrying 131 passengers and eight crew from Lisbon, was on its approach to the mid-Atlantic islands when a cockpit alarm and the local air traffic control tower warned the pilot of an imminent collision with a twin-engine Beechcraft crossing its path, officials said.
