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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The transponder issue is a distraction from the true cause of the accident, which is an air traffic control system that put two airplanes on a collision course for about an hour."

Source: David Rimmer, executive VP of ExcelAire. Brazilian Air Force investigators have ruled the September 29, 2006 mid-air collision of a Gol Airlines 737 and an Embraer Legacy 600 was largely the blame of the two American pilots of the Embraer bizjet operated by ExcelAire, stating they had inadvertently switched their transponder to standby mode. Also contributing to the incident were the actions of four flight controllers who failed to notice the transponder was turned off and failed to warn the pilots of their collision course.

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