Commercial planes have technology that helps prevent crashes — but it has limitations, which was highlighted by the accident ...

Lee Moak is a past president of the Air Line Pilots Association and was a commercial pilot for 25 years.

US time, a passenger jet and US Army helicopter collided at a low altitude near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, ...

TCAS is mandated worldwide on all large aircraft and on many smaller commercial flights. It's an airborne electronic system ...

Investigators probing the mid-air collision over Washington between a regional jet and a military helicopter have provided ...

The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System is meant to act as the last defence against mid-air collisions but has its ...

D.C., has led to many questions about the role played by the Traffic Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS. While you can read our report of the incident here, it should be restated that, at this early ...

This crash comes just over a month after a passenger jet crashed in South Korea – possibly as a result of a bird strike – killing all but two of the 181 people on board. The two incidents have focused ...

PSA Airlines, the carrier involved in the mid-air accident over Washington, ironically preserves the name of another airline ...

A look at the frequency of runway incursions in the United States and the preventative measures taken by the FAA to avoid ...

Local aviation experts say the deadly plane collision near Washington, D.C., came down to one thing: a communication error.

What 'rush hour' looks like in New York on the TCAS system. (Alamy) ...