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Evasive Action. Although today's FAA airways are the most extensive and best-controlled in the world, they are far from foolproof???even with their current traffic load. On two occasions in 1965, for example, airline pilots, confused by optical illusions, took violent evasive maneuvers to avoid airliners that were actually separated from them by 1,000 feet of altitude prescribed by FAA controllers. Such unnecessary evasive maneuvers were cited as the probable cause of the collision over New York's Westchester County between an Eastern Airlines Constellation and a TWA 707 jet. Although both planes were damaged...
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