Fighter plane in training run near-miss with private jet

A FIGHTER plane came within 240ft of colliding with a private jet during a "most serious" near-miss.

The Eurofighter Typhoon was diving on a "high angle strafe" during a training run when it shot past the Hawker Siddeley 125 coming into land at an airport on Humberside.

The UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses between aircraft, graded the incident which happened at 8000ft as Category A, meaning "an actual risk of collision existed".

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Fighter-plane--in-training.4684730.jp