Near mid-air crash puts Kenya and Ethiopia on a collision course

Two passenger planes missed each other in the Kenyan airspace by a minute last week, averting what would have been one of the world's worst aviation accidents.

The near-collision, at Naivasha, 100 kilometres west of Nairobi, was prevented when the pilot of one of the planes — upon receiving a warning from the inflight traffic collision system — made a sudden climb to avoid the oncoming flight.