• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I believe you are getting pedantic - when they got conflicting info they didn’t follow the TCAS. Point remains, they didn’t follow the TCAS.

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        1 year ago

        no i am not and no, the point definitely does not remain.

        first, phrasing it like “they didn’t follow TCAS” make them sound like some reckless cowboys, which is simply not the case. they did exactly what they were told by tcas and when they got contradicting order from ATC the did exactly what they were told by him.

        second, the statatement “was a result of the one crew not following the TCAS instruction” is simply not true. the accident was a result of ATC (as in the organization, not the specific people having the shift that night) fucked up". reading that linked wiki article may be good place to start to learn about the accident.

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          1 year ago

          Had both aircraft followed those automated instructions, the collision would not have occurred.

          That is right from the wiki.

          I never claimed the pilots were “cowboys”, you made that up in your head. I simply said the accident was a result of not following TCAS, which at its core is correct. Of course there are multiple contributing factors, ATC being the largest, but my post was already getting long winded.

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            1 year ago

            and had all the pilots overslept that day the incident might not have happen as well and in spite of that, we don’t list them getting out of the bed in the morning as a reason of the accident.

            them obeying the atc command was reasonable and expected course of action.

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              1 year ago

              them obeying the atc command was reasonable and expected course of action.

              That’s incorrect, and is exactly why we train to ignore ATC commands and follow TCAS advisories. We don’t even tell ATC if we’re climbing or descending, simply “Aircraft XYZ, TCAS RA”

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                  1 year ago

                  According to the wiki…

                  TCAS was a relatively new technology at the time of the accident, having been mandatory[Note 2] in Europe since 2000.

                  Two years prior to the accident, in Europe, where the accident happened.