Nor did Hoosten use the phrase “for sure”.
Hoosten: Do you have first hand knowledge of whether mutual traffic was given and acknowledged by both aircraft?
For those who don’t have first hand knowledge of facts asserted with carefree ease, maybe you should qualify your assertions with “Someone who knows told me that he said/heard ‘.....’. If you know for sure, say you know “for sure”. If you’re making an educated guess, say you’re making an educated guess.
I know it’s easy to attribute the cause to mistake/s by deceased pilot/s, but I thought we’d grown out of that a long time ago (ATSB’s behaviour notwithstanding).
And no one’s yet answered my question about Centre and safety alerts.