Air traffic control tapes from a near-miss between a United Airlines Flight 889, a Boeing 777-222 (N216UA), and a Cessna 182(N9870E), over the San Francisco Airport on 27 March reveal that both aircraft were being worked by the tower, with the Cessna instructed to maintain visual separation with the heavy. Here's the preliminary NTSB report.
The expression in the woman 777 pilot's voice, however, when she says, "...We need to talk" pretty much says that things didn't go as ATC might have planned.
Take a listen from this LiveATC.net audio file captured by one of the kind patrons there: SFO_near_miss.mp3
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