The Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (Auto ACAS) is explained by USAF fighter pilots and other technical experts. The Auto ACAS is designed to protect fighter pilots from mid-air collisions.

WASHINGTON — The aircraft involved in the mid-air collision earlier this year over Ronald Reagan National Airport lacked certain collision avoidance systems that could have helped an Army helicopter ...

A witness who heard radio transmissions between the aircraft told investigators the helicopter crew instructed the Cessna pilot to "extend his downwind." ...

Using the Detect and Avoid System, the MQ-9B operated in U.S. airspace like any other piloted aircraft, without the need for the special handling usually required for UAS. The U.S. Navy's Naval Air ...

FAA MANDATES COLLISION AVOIDANCE ON LARGE CARGO AIRCRAFT - Federal Aviation Administration exempted lighter aircraft from a final rule released this month mandating installation of collision avoidance ...

In more than 32 hours of testimony across three days the National Transportation Safety Board probed virtually every detail of what led up to the January 29 midair collision between a US Army Black ...

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – JANUARY 30: Emergency response units work at the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed last night on approach to Reagan National ...

Avoiding midair collisions always has been a foundational requirement of aviation, but that requirement is changing as airspace fills with autonomous, semi-autonomous, and optionally crewed planes ...

Family members of the people who were killed in the midair collision near Washington Reagan National Airport listen during a news conference as Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., speaks, not shown, on Capitol ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a series of false midair collision alerts received by multiple commercial flights preparing to land at Reagan National Airport over the weekend.

Family members of some of the 67 people killed in January’s midair collision in Washington listened to the US Army and Federal Aviation Administration take fiery questions from lawmakers for the first ...

A report has raised safety concerns after a Luton Airport-bound airliners avoided a mid-air collision with a another aircraft over Hertfordshire.