Inside a mock control tower next to Hong Kong International Airport, a virtual near-miss plays out on multi-panel screens.
A passenger jet descends in the computer-generated sky, seconds away from landing when suddenly, a barely visible object trundles along the edge of the runway and onto the aircraft’s path.
The simulation bears an uncanny and coincidental resemblance to a tragedy that unfolded at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, where an Air Canada Express jet with 76 people on board smashed into a fire truck shortly after landing on March 22. The force of that crash obliterated the cockpit, killing the ...