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The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-pull-up dept.

New submitter gmrobbins writes "The Seattle Times profiles avionics engineer Don Bateman, whose Honeywell lab in Redmond, Washington has for decades pioneered ground proximity warning systems. Bateman's innovations have nearly eliminated controlled flight into terrain by commercial aircraft, the most common cause of fatal airplane accidents."

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  1. CFIT vs loss of control by evilad · · Score: 1, Redundant

    CFIT is nowhere near the leading cause of fatal accidents in general aviation.
    http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=13103&omniRss=fact_sheetsAoc&cid=103_F_S

    It's pretty hard to find statistics for combined civil aviation, please post a link if you can find one.