A midair collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet approaching Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport has sparked urgent concerns about air-traffic ...

A series of false Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) alerts near Reagan National Airport (KDCA) in March caused pilots to maneuver for non-existent air traffic. Senator Ted Cruz blamed these ...

Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) and Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems (TAWS) are much like any other avionics device, except that if they are not functioning properly, the pilots may ...

The crash late Wednesday of American Eagle Flight 5342 near Reagan National Airport has brought fresh attention to a technology known as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS, which ...

When two aircraft are unknowingly on a collision course, TCAS - the Traffic Collision Avoidance System — comes alive. Alarms echo through the cockpit as the transponders on both jets communicate, ...

The high workload of an air traffic controller at Delhi airport resulted in two traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) alerts between an Airbus A320 of Vistara Airlines and a Boeing 787-8 of ...

Rockwell Collins, Bristow Helicopters of the U.K. and Shell Aviation have combined efforts to secure what they say is the first-ever Traffic-alert and Collision Avoidance System II certification on a ...

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today the GTS 8000 Traffic alert and Collision ...

Aircraft technology that has been crucial to making big midair collisions exceptionally rare in the U.S. was limited in helping avoid Wednesday’s deadly collision between a commercial jetliner and ...