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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: J.L. Turner who wrote (2904)12/5/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Ruyi  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Y2K related?? Maybe the sky really is falling??

FAA investigating near collision over Northeast
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Saturday it was investigating the near-collision of a jet and a commuter flight over New York state apparently caused by computers used to prevent such potential disasters.

On-board computer systems known as TCAs for Traffic Collision Avoidance erroneously put pilots of the Northwest Airlines (Nasdaq:NWAC - news) jet and the Air Ontario commuter flight on a collision course on Tuesday.

An air traffic controller who spotted the trouble and called out a warning prevented a potential tragedy about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Albany, in the Northeast's heavily congested airspace.

The TCAs apparently misread movement of a third US Airways (NYSE:U - news) flight, and directed the Air Ontario flight to climb to avoid it at the same time the Northwest flight was making its descent.

The jet heading from Detroit to Providence and the commuter flight from Providence to Toronto came within less than a mile (800 metres) of each other horizontally and within 300 feet (90 metres) vertically, at altitudes with standard separations of five miles horizontally and 1,000 feet (300 metres) vertically, officials said.

The FAA is examining what went wrong with the aircrafts' TCAs, a spokesman said. ''They will check for a flaw in the software, maybe in one individual plane,'' spokesman Fraser Jones said.


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