Unless the landing aircraft is a Concorde or Tu-144, there's no need for a camera system. Pitch attitude on approach does not cause the nose to block out the r

Unless the landing aircraft is a Concorde or Tu-144, there's no need for a camera system. Pitch attitude on approach does not cause the nose to block out the runway. Yes, the nose is high in the the moment of flare, but a) the nose of almost any commercial aircraft is not long enough to block the pilots' view of the runway even at that attitude, and b) the moment of flare is far too late to be safely noticing another aircraft occupying your intended runway. Selective attention or visual confirmation bias (I'm really not sure what the precise cog-psych term would be, sorry) is more likely to be a problem. E.g., 20 seconds out, there is another plane already on the runway, but the flight crew is too focused on their instruments to notice it. Or they look in the right place, but they don't notice the obstacle because in the hundreds or thousands of times they've looked at an approaching runway before, there hasn't been an obstacle. And at that moment the flight crew is much more focused on glidepath and alignment than on obstacle search, so they see the runway but fail to actually notice the obstruction.