A business jet on a delivery flight from Brazil to the US is shaken by a massive hit over the Amazon rainforest. The pilots manage to land the damaged aircraft, but they soon find out that they had a mid-air collision with a passenger jet.
How could a multibillion-dollar air traffic control system fail to detect two planes on a collision course? And how did a state-of-the-art business plane fail to alert its pilots to the 737 heading straight for it? The investigation of a 2006 crash over the Amazon Rainforest uncovered a string of technological and human errors.—JLK partial text from Smithsonianchannel.com