[coddingtonbear]

This would, if the system is working, be the blood that future regulations are written in. That these kinds of things happen so rarely came to us at a cost of past lives.

[xienze]

OK then, what regulation do you think was missing that could have prevented this

[0xffff2]

I mean, that's pretty obvious right? It's absolutely insane to have VFR traffic passing through the final approach corridor, especially at night.

[xienze]

Apparently not obvious enough for anyone in the FAA ever, over numerous decades, to think it can’t be safely done.