NEWS | Wednesday, 17 December 2008

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Air Malta aircraft in near miss incident

An Air Malta aircraft was forced to take ‘avoidance action’ to avoid another aircraft over Italian airspace yesterday.
The national airline said the pilot had to take ìavoidance actionî in line with instructions given by the Traffic Collision Avoidance System on the Airbus A320 he was flying. The Rome Air Traffic Control had given clearance for the aircraft to land. The aircraft later landed normally at Romeís Fiumicino airport.
Air Malta said that the TCAS is an aircraft avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid-air collisions. The system monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other similarly equipped aircraft with a corresponding active transponder. It and issues instructions to the pilots of both aircraft of the action required.

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