For those of you who watch Breaking Bad, the disaster at the end of Season 3
probably wouldn’t have happened if the US adopted a similar system.
When I saw that episode, my first thought was that it would be extraordinarily unlikely in the US, no matter how badly ATC messed up. TCAS has turned mid-air collisions between airliners into an almost nonexistent type of accident.
When I saw that episode, my first thought was that it would be extraordinarily unlikely in the US, no matter how badly ATC messed up. TCAS has turned mid-air collisions between airliners into an almost nonexistent type of accident.
After writing that I thought “Actually, it probably still would have happened, because it’s such a great plot element.” Rule of Cool.