correct me if I am wrong, but aren't planes flyign north, or east suppose to be at an even altitude (32,000 28,000) and planes flying west or south at an odd altitude? I could have the even and odd mixed up.
Yeah, it's the other way around. Aircraft flying on headings of 000-179 degrees should be at odd altitudes and those on headings of 180-359 degrees should be at even.
According to the people posting over on those airliners.net threads, the captain of the Legacy reported that he saw a "shadow" over his aircraft and then there was a "hard bump." The conjecture on some Brazilian TV was that the 737 was descending and one of the Legacy's wings ripped into the 737's belly and damaged the plane enough to cause it to go out of control. But at that point, that's sheer guesswork, and will be until investigators can go over the Legacy and over the 737's wreckage, and pull out the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from both aircraft.
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