Originally Posted by
Chris516
I was watching a story on airline crash investigations. The crew in question, had turned off the TCAS(Total Collision Avoidance System). The crew's reasoning was because all the auditory warnings were becoming distracting.
Which crash was this? TCAS would seem to be about the last thing you'd want to disable due to it being distracting. The only airline crashes I remember where TCAS was an issue were the one involving a Russian plane over Germany where TCAS gave one instruction and ATC directed the opposite and the crash in Brazil where the TCAS transponder was off but there was no indication the crew had turned it off intentionally and there had been some concerns about it turning off spontaneously.