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Letter: How we keep aircraft safer far from land

Published 7 August 2024

From Peter Brooker, London, UK

Aviation safety over oceans isn’t solely dependent on navigational systems like GPS, which, as you report, have been subject to jamming. Aircraft carry a traffic alert and collision avoidance set-up, an independent radar-based system, to reduce collision risk. It works well for aircraft in the usual flight/cruise conditions, assuming the crew pay attention to alerts and advisories (20 July, p 14).

Issue no. 3503 published 10 August 2024

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