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Old 22nd Sep 2011, 14:04
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This is such a shame.

Technology exists that could all but eliminate these occurrences. Certification acts as a barrier, acting in the opposite sense from which it should. Airlines are unable or unwilling to pay for the equipment. Regulators stand idly by when they should be mandating said equipment.

Will we have to experience a loss on the scale of Tenerife before runway advisory systems mature and become a mandated fit? It seems it might be just "the cost of doing business" in the airline industry and that it's easier to keep on blaming crews rather then asking some hard, inconvenient or expensive questions.
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