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To: Turbopilot

Being such a new plane, wouldn't it have collision avoidance?


31 posted on 09/29/2006 6:12:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
Being such a new plane, wouldn't it have collision avoidance?

Yes, it would have TCAS.

However, TCAS hasn't prevented other mid air collisions. It isn't full proof.

32 posted on 09/29/2006 6:17:04 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: Moonman62

Yes, but it's no guarantee. The aircraft that collided over Switzerland about four years ago both had TCAS, but the pilot of one followed the TCAS direction while the other followed the controller's contrary direction. (If a controller issues a command contrary to TCAS, the pilot is to follow the TCAS instruction and not the controller.)

In this case, it's possible the pilot ignored TCAS for whatever reason; it's also possible that the pilot of the bizjet (which may have TCAS but probably isn't required to) and the pilot of the 737 tried to "avoid" each other in the same direction and clipped.


35 posted on 09/29/2006 6:42:05 PM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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