Hotel Tango: I will confess to having only 5 years experience working with ATC. And I maintain my comment was not "utter, utter poppycock". If there had been better communication between controllers, at least a part of the conversation between the tower and the ground units would not have arisen. I am referring to the tower not knowing that the flight had indeed declared an emergency or what the intentions were. May I respectfully suggest you sit down with a nice warm drink and let your blood pressure settle down.
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