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Originally Posted by Dennis
And then wasn’t there a mid-air collision involving German/Russian aircraft, when TCAS was indicating the need to dive but the pilot “felt” the correct decision would be to climb based on compromised ATC input, and the aircraft collided?
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Yep, pops up on nat geo channel now and then. They since amended the rule so the pilots always must obey TCAS, and ignore ATC. The problem in that case was that the "russian" pilot was told to dive, by TCAS, and did. The "german" pilot was told to climb by TCAS but ATC told him to dive, and he obeyed ATC. Trusting TCAS would have saved many lives.