I. M. Esperto: The TCAS on Flight 907, a Boeing 747-400, activated because it was approaching Flight 958, and instructed the cockpit crew to climb. Nevertheless, the captain chose to descend in accordance with the controller's order rather than the TCAS alarm.
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Police chose to seek charges against the captain on the grounds that he failed to follow a TCAS instruction, which could have led to a fatal accident.
I thought the airline's then SOP were not to follow TCAS if visual separation could be maintained, and that was what the 744 captain was trying to do. If he was following his company's SOP, where's the interest in prosecuting him? Maybe I've missed something here.