No near miss! Honest!

[gary baldy]

Have you seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660644.stm

The CAA deny there was a near miss and say the photograph is deceptive. Yet they also say planes should be two and half miles apart and no amount of false perspective in this photo makes them that far apart!

[gary baldy]

After reading forums by people who know what they are talking about on airliners.net (pilots mainly) i'm convinced it was something and nothing.
I thought i understood foreshortening in telephoto lenses but i obviously dont know enough.
Now this is really foreshortening:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/652327/M/

[Goodsoulette]

did anything happen? no! What the hell does it matter then.