DCA Crash - Could AI Have Prevented It?

WASHINGTON - Jan. 29, 2025 - PRLog -- While little is yet known about the deadly crash at Reagan National Airport [DCA], it at least should again raise the issue of whether an AI guidance assistance system might have alerted the control tower and/or the pilots in time to avert the accident.

This issue has been raised repeatedly over the past several years as the number of near misses at or near major airports - many of which have been kept secret - has continued to increase, says Professor John Banzhaf of the George Washington University [GWU], who has described how such systems might operate.

Especially since the cost to establish and preliminarily test such a system would be minimal, and could be done in months if not weeks, it's hard to argue that this possibility should not at the very least be considered.

Banzhaf, an MIT-trained engineer with two U.S. patents who have researched and written frequently about safety issues, described his suggestion in this article:

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