Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
The terrible Mangalore fatal accident showed that the ATC had to sit and watch as the collision between two ADSB equipped IFR aircraft took place.
I can’t imagine much more de skilling than that!
How do you know they "sat and watched"? They identified the conflict, passed traffic as required, and in all likelihood moved on to do something else (as happens probably a 1000 times a day throughout Australia). I'm sure that if they had been "sitting and watching" they would have tried to intervene as a duty of care, but sitting and watching what happens in G is not their job focus.