OPTION ON HONEYWELL EGPWS MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED COMAIR CRASH

A software upgrade available on a widely used Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System might have prevented the pilots of Comair Flight 5191 from taking off on the wrong runway, Honeywell officials suggested last week. The Comair flight was taking off before dawn from Lexington, Ky. and had been...

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