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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.

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

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

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

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