JetBlue said a passenger jet operating as Flight 1112 nearly collided with a U.S. Air Force KC-135R tanker while climbing out of Curaçao and that the crew stopped their climb, levelled off and then continued to New York where the flight landed without further incident.Audio posted on LiveATC.net and reviewed by civil and military authorities captures the captain warning controllers that the tanker crossed the jet's path at the same altitude a few miles away, that it was not broadcasting a transponder and that the separation was only three to five kilometers, a distance the pilot described as less than twenty seconds of flight at that speed.The Washington Post reported the episode and U.S. Southern Command and the Federal Aviation Administration are reviewing recordings, radar and flight data while
Curaçao aviation authorities keep an alert in place amid heightened U.S. military activity that critics have linked to
Donald Trump.