Originally Posted by
sptraveller
I fully expect that increased use of existing automation would have made this incident much less likely.
Existing automation like the new, high tech 'Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC)', you mean? Less than a year operational at the pilot site SFO, which...
Provides surveillance data with an accuracy and update rate suitable for:
- Situational awareness in all weather conditions
- Departure queuing
- Conflict detection and alerts
- Taxi route conformance monitoring
but did not prevent (probably not even alert) that an airplane almost touched down on a twy full of other planes.
Still a looong way to go before automation catches most of the incidents before they become one...