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

TCAS is mandated worldwide on all large aircraft and on many smaller commercial flights. It's an airborne electronic system that functions independently of the ground-based air traffic control (ATC) ...

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

Cockpit warnings logged by air traffic controllers show a record of persistent collision risks near Reagan National Airport ...

The records reveal "the potential for an airborne collision was more frequent near the airport than has been previously disclosed," noted The Washington Post on Thursday about the data. Each of the ...

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 ...

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

PSA Airlines, the carrier involved in the mid-air accident over Washington, ironically preserves the name of another airline whose involvement in two mid-air collisions contributed to as pairspace ...

A TCAS system, which stands for "traffic alert and collision avoidance system", is meant to act as the last defence against mid-air collisions in passenger planes. It is a type of airborne collision ...