Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Wonderful new world where every incident even minor like this one get published and debated on You Tube with kids discussing what should have been done!
I suppose next will be the name, photo and address of the controller together with his Facebook profile ...
Totally blown out of all proportions indeed. More than minor event indeed - loss of separation assurance only, actual separation was not lost (when the controller reported FR-9431 descending 800 feet below and 1nm laterally, EI-433 was descending through FL210 towards FL200 and FR-9431 was descending through FL192).
What has been made of that video in Daily Fail and some Irish papers is just beyond belief (near collision, identifying EI-433 and FR-9451, which was 20nm behind EI-433 and FR-9431 and was instructed to stop descent at FL220 subsequently after EI-433 was re-assigned to FL210).