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Old 23rd Nov 2018, 12:07
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atakacs
 
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Thanks for surfacing the report.

It reads:

The serious incident is attributable to the fact that the crew of a commercial aircraft initiated a climb without clearance, which lead to a dangerous convergence with another commercial aircraft. The following factors were identified as the cause of the serious incident:
  • The crew initiated the climb on the basis of a clearance which had been issued to another commercial aircraft belonging to the same aviation operator.
  • The air traffic controller did not realise that the clearance issued was not read back by the crew for which it had been intended.

The following was identified as a contributing factor to the serious incident:
  • A request by a flight crew for clearance to a higher flight level without specification of their radio callsign;
  • The issue of altitude clearance by air traffic control without verification of the crew which had made the request;
  • Absent reaction of another crew to whom the clearance was addressed to;
  • Insufficient attention was given to the prevailing weather conditions when the decision to combine sectors was made.
Not good but criminal offense ? I'll try to dig up the actual judgment (not all are published).
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