Maybe you should re-read what you wrote down as the quote in the original comment and compare it to the actual quote.

Near miss can be a confusing phrase, but it means a miss where the objects (or planes here) were very near each other. With that context, a near collision wouldn’t make sense as there’s no way to have a collision where the objects are just near each other (as opposed to contacting each other).

This was a fun one to get directed to. Quite a reminder of what reddit used to be. http://amatranscripts.com/