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The icao president says air traffic is going to double in the next 20 years. >> yes, oh, yes. >> could you please help me get off the ledge in this one? we're having fewer deals that get the bad controllers out and double the traffic, how are we supposed to feel safe in the air? >> well, what's occurring, there's so many things occurring at once. that's another problem for the air traffic control mistakes. 50% increase, increasing either year is very bad. the system is heavily computer reliant. if everybody's in the system and has all the equipment, air collisions a thing of the past. the unit...

They said it's more beneficial instead of punishment to learn from it and share this with other people so in some cases, yes. i think this is beyond that. there's more happening and more happening because of overcrowding. more pressure on every single one of these controllers and there's more airplanes in the sky than there ever has been. >> is this a question of too many planes in the sky or too much traffic right around those airports? >> well, no really. that's not going to change. we have to have a system and we have a system that right now and system that can handle the traffic. what is o...

I was told that afterwards if we had lost one more meter of our wing, in other words, it ends here, then we would have blown up as well. i keep this always in my room to remind me that if you survived this, you can survive anything. >> then in 1978, and 1986, there are two more mid air collisions in the u.s. building on the accidents that preceded them, they force major change in the aviation industry. there are eery similarities. both occur in broad daylight on picture perfect days in southern california. the first on september 25th, 1978, is caught on camera. >> we heard a loud crash overhea...

We increased or enhanced radar coverage. we enhanced air traffic control communication with flight crews. they changed the air space. they actually created a system of controlled air space, trying to avoid or at least mitigate the risk that you were going to have these transient pilots flying through high density areas in close proximity to major airports. >> all the lessons learned have made flying so safe and mid air collisions so rare, according to an m.i.t. study, you'd have to fly continuously for 11,000 years in order to experience one. unfortunately many people had to lose their lives t...

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