9 hours agoaviation consultant: Airplanes have technology TCAS) The accident could not happen
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Geoffrey Thomas, an aviation consultant, says the US has the safest airline system in the world and “these kinds of things don't happen in the United States”. Thomas tells the BBC that collisions in the air were supposed to be something of the past and that new technology enabled aircraft to negotiate [...]
Thomas tells the BBC that collisions in the air were supposed to be something of the past and that new technology enabled aircraft to talk electronically to each other to warn pilots of such imminent clashes.
This is a system called Trafoff Collition Avoidance System (TCAS)Which Thomas says has saved tens of thousands of lives in recent decades.
He adds that all commercial planes and most military aircraft are equipped with this technology.
The “textically (the crash) should never have happened. It's confusing and tragic”, he added.
