near miss

... two aircraft, one flying level across the field, another climbing after a missed approach, had an extremely near miss, in my estimation, less than 50 feet, before the lower pilot saw the higher aircraft and broke violently to the right in the darkness.

In recent years there have been two fatalities and one near miss due to the inappropriate use of boom trucks.

Dean Chance ... wasn't crying over his near miss of a no-hitter Monday night.