Airplane Near Misses Continue While $80 Billion Spent on Diversity

WASHINGTON - July 22, 2025 - PRLog -- Just months after a mid-air collision by two aircraft near Reagan National Airport, a regional SkyWest flight narrowly avoided another deadly mid-air collision with a B-52 bomber only by making an  "aggressive maneuver" at the last minute.

There apparently was no radio warning of the impending collision provided to either pilot; perhaps, as some have suggested, because they were working on different radio frequencies.

But such collisions and other potentially-deadly near misses could have been prevented by using computers equipped with existing AI programs to monitor air-to-ground radio communication, and then provide air traffic controllers in control towers with alerts of any situations when two planes might fly too close to one another.

Fortunately there is something which can be up and running (at last version 1.0) in a week, tested and improved (version 2.0) in a month, and be operational at all major airports within a year argues Prof Banzhaf, an MIT-educated engineer with two U.S. patents and considerable experience with computers and vehicle safety.

An off-the-shelf already-available desktop computer using a modern AI program could provide a significant increase in air traffic safety - like having a lightning-fast genius looking over controllers' shoulders to help - claims Banzhaf.

It would be like having an ever-vigilant and indefatigable genius, who can project scenarios and provide warnings of potential collisions in milliseconds, looking over the shoulders of very busy controllers in airport towers.

After all, the inventor-professor notes, computers running existing AI programs can already do many things no air traffic controller can possibly do, and do it in milliseconds, including:
■ monitoring the dozens of different relevant radio frequencies, including commercial, helicopter, small craft civilian, military, Homeland Security, and from other nearby airports, etc.
■ in the case at Reagan Airport for example, also simultaneously monitor all radio and radar at DCA as well as nearby from Bolling AFB, plus any from the Pentagon, White House, etc.
■ calculate various flight paths, and foresee possible crashes, in fractions of a second
■ never become tired, flustered, distracted, or panicked
and then alert an air traffic controller - but not pilots directly - if there seems to be a problem such as a potential collision.

Professor Banzhaf's detailed analysis of how such a supplemental warning system could work has been featured in:

Let's Try Using New AI to Reduce Airport Runway Incursions; (https://www.valuewalk.com/lets-try-using-new-ai-to-reduce...)
AI Programs Can Easily Monitor Radio Traffic, Detect Objects, and Analyze (https://www.valuewalk.com/lets-try-using-new-ai-to-reduce-airport-runway-incursions/)

There's Been Still Another Potentially Fatal Airplane Near Miss; (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/theres-bee...) 2 Injured (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/theres-been-still-another-potentially-fatal-airplane-near-miss--injured----especially-with-some-fatal-isnt-it-time-to-stop-the-c-4294392/)
Especially With Some Fatal, Isn't It Time to Stop the Coverup and Use AI (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/theres-been-still-another-potentially-fatal-airplane-near-miss--injured----especially-with-some-fatal-isnt-it-time-to-stop-the-c-4294392/)

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