My understanding is that the Airboss is responsible for preventing the accident before any aircraft take off by creating choreography and a display sequence that ensures separation and makes an accident (almost) impossible.
If the accident aircraft were performing a permitted manoeuvre and were both their permitted locations then the Airboss shares some if not most of the responsibility for the accident.
No pilot can keep full SA with respect to all the other aircraft in that busy display. Separation should have been ensured with differing altitudes and display lines and no crossover permitted.
A very sad set of events.
ATB
Originally Posted by
WideScreen
And, regarding "blaming" the airboss: Forget about this. These things happen that fast, that there is no opportunity to monitor a bag of data from a whole bunch of aircraft, draw conclusions about WHAT is (potentially) going to happen, AND then decide to intervene, AND define a proper action, AND assume that the intervention will receive the party being intervened AND assume the intervened party will act accordingly. All in real-time. No way.