Originally Posted by
Internaut
I thought there were minimum distance rules put into place (if I'm understanding what I'm reading here) in the wake (no pun intended) of the aircraft that came down on Queens, New York, shortly after 9/11?
The separation rules were in place long before the crash of AA 587. This crash was more to do with a mishandled wake vortex encounter, the mishandling lead to a structural failure and the crash. The wake encounter was not the cause of the structural failure.