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Old 6th Feb 2023, 16:28
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Originally Posted by BFSGrad
The two phrases that likely degraded situational awareness at a critical time were Fedex’s highly inappropriate “Southwest abort”.
I'm not sure I would agree with that - given that the controller didn't issue any instruction to SWA to stop / abort, the FedEx probably did the right thing in telling the SWA to abort thus preventing the SWA from continuing it's take off and climbing into the FedEx's path as it went around. Desperate measures...
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