Thursday, October 05, 2006

How Do Planes Avoid Colliding?

There's a little box that yells "Traffic! Traffic!"

By Daniel Engber

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The Brazilian courts ordered the detention of two American pilots on Monday, a few days after the jet they were flying crashed into a passenger liner over the Amazon jungle. Interviews with the pilots may help explain how the accident occurred, even though both planes were outfitted with automatic collision-avoidance systems. What's a collision-avoidance system?

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