German Midair: TCAS Worked, ATC Didn't

Honeywell TCAS (Change 7) installed on both aircraft functioned properly in the minutes leading up to the July 1, 2002, midair near Uberlingen, Germany, but failures at the Zurich ATC system seem to have set up the Tupolev TU-154M and the Boeing 757-200 for disaster. The comments on the functioning...

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