Close call between 2 F-16's and commuter jet

foxnews.com/us/2010/04/09/co … latestnews

The reason I posted this - not so much for the story as this quote:

“Radar showed the Ohio National Guard F-16s were flying at 30,000 feet when they should have been no higher than 29,000 feet, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro said.
The commercial plane “encountered two F-16s and they had a near-miss incident,” Molinaro said.”

So now even the spokesman for the FAA is calling them “near-misses”? Thank God - imagine what would have happened if it’d been a near hit!

Wouldn’t a near miss mean it was a hit? How did that whole thing ever get started?

Same altitude but how far apart?

And what the hell does it mean “cleared to FL360 as a precaution”…
Reporters know shit.

Disregard.