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2nd Aug 2012, 22:31

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Any reason to think TCAS wouldn't have sorted it out?

To start with this was not a scenario TCAS was designed for. As mentioned above, TCAS is inhibited below a predefined altitude. If it wasn't it could get pretty messy at busy airports.

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