Everyone loves to blame the Pilot, but air traffic controllers never get it wrong too ? hmmm.
2006-09-04 08:05:34 · 6 answers · asked by Latin Techie 7 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
It is a fact that in a number of air accidents and incidents the conduct of Air Traffic Control has been a causal or contributory factor.
However, as in most accidents, there is rarely one single cause which leads to the event.
Check out the various accident reports - you might like to look at the mid-air involving the DHL aircraft and a Russian airliner, the Zagreb mid-air, and the Las Palmas runway collision between two 747s. This was the worst aviation accident to date.
Somebody once said 'If the pilot survives, you will NEVER know the cause of the accident'!!!
2006-09-04 08:33:45 · answer #1 · answered by aarcue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's only one incident I know that was like that. There was a Russian(I think it was Russian) plane in a collision course with a Canadian plane. The tower was getting it's radar fixed so it wasn't that good, and the phones were down. One of the guys in the tower was handling both aircraft, so he was very busy. As the planes got closer their collision avoidance systems were saying the opposite of what the controller was telling them to do. The Canadian plane's system was saying descend! descend! while the controller had told them before to climb, and the other plane's system was saying climb! while the controller had told him to descend. Then seconds after the collision systems on the plane had alerted the pilots, the crew of both planes saw each other heading towards one another. They both tried to pull away from each other but it was to late. The tail of the Canadian plane clipped the fuselage of the other plane. The other plane exploded instantly, and the forward part of the fuselage, with the cockpit, plumeted toward the ground. The Canadian plane lost it's tail and stabilizers, and struggled on for another couple of minutes until it crashed in a forest. The controller was trying to call other towers with better radar before the crash, but the phones were down. When he saw that the two planes were not on his radar screen he was devastated. It is an air traffic controller's worst nightmare.
2006-09-04 08:33:44 · answer #2 · answered by Dan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya ya whos in control of the plane?
2006-09-04 08:09:25 · answer #3 · answered by mike L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.ntsb.gov will give you all the accidents and there causes
2006-09-05 19:17:12 · answer #4 · answered by gould1272 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about half them
2006-09-05 14:44:34 · answer #5 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question i dont know
2006-09-04 08:30:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋