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Media is blowing this all out of proportion. As has already been mentioned the aircraft had Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) which is designed exactly for incidents such as these. Similar incident happened over Japan with two 747's over 600 POB...but in this incident one pilot chose to ignore TCAS and go on the controllers instruction. Apparently western pilots are instructed to obey TCAS instructions over the ATC controllers but in Europe, particularly Russian pilots continue to override TCAS and follow controllers instruction which was the findings in the mid-air collision over Germany in 2002.
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