Obviously encouraged by the fact that no midair accidents involving commercial aircraft have taken place since traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken a significant step toward the oft-proclaimed theology of a "single level of safety" that should greatly help reduce the threat of mid-air collisions ...

Known as the Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) or Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), it is a system designed to help increase cockpit awareness of neighboring aircraft and is ...

Commercial planes have technology that helps prevent crashes — but it has limitations, which was highlighted by the accident in Washington. By Niraj Chokshi For decades, airlines, regulators, ...

Mid-air collisions of aircraft should have been a thing of the past with the technology that exists in 2025, yet the collision between an American Airlines CRJ701 passenger jet and a Sikorsky H60 army ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What 'rush hour' looks like in New York on the TCAS system. (Alamy) Authorities believe everyone on board a passenger plane and a ...

Reacting to a just-issued Eurocontrol Safety Warning Message (SWM) about the loss of traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) functionality, a Germany-based airline captain says many airline ...

CARGO TCAS Ending a 17-month rulemaking, the FAA adopted most of its proposed requirement that all-cargo aircraft be equipped with TCAS (traffic-alert and collision avoidance system). The agency ...

As the investigation begins into the cause of the mid-air crash between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter, questions have been raised about the role ...