What measures are in place to safeguard against mid-air collisions?
On Friday, September 29, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 disappeared from air traffic control radar screens. A search ensued, and Brazilian officials located wreckage of the passenger jet in the Amazon rainforest . One-hundred and fifty-five people died in the crash. That same day, authorities learned that a small, private plane had made a successful emergency landing in the same general vicinity after sustaining damage in flight. An investigation determined that the incidents were connected — the result of a mid-air collision. There are many reasons why the accident shouldn’t have happened. Since the late 1950s, following several tragic mid-air collisions including one over the Grand Canyon that occurred after the pilots of two different planes changed their course to give their passengers a better view of the chasm, air traffic control (ATC) procedures have gotten increasingly strict and sophisticated. And since the late 1970s, radar-based collision-detection units called Traffic Collisio
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