Originally Posted by
WhisprSYD
At 14 mins prior to the collision the inbound aircraft may still have been air working at another aerodrome with a 30 minute delay set.. we don’t know any of that
Yes we do, we know that it departed Tyabb at 1055, climbed to 6000’ and tracked through the Melbourne TMA on a more or less direct track to Mangalore.
We know AEM gave their intentions to conduct airwork at Mangalore to the surface yet they weren’t given JQF until 2 minutes after they had left 6000’.
If AEM had passed 5000’ at this point (likely), JQFs ability to separate at 4000’, the lowest possible level was gone. Both aircraft potentially in IMC.
It was too late, the traffic had to be passed on earlier. The traffic was known at taxi, why wasn’t it passed on to either aircraft until it got this far?