Originally Posted by
spornrad
I respectfully disagree. Understanding the detail here may well lead to increased situational awareness for tower and aircrew. So the next controller will not issue a clearance that tight, the next Fedex pilot will go around earlier and the next SW pilot will reject such a clearance. This is the entire point in accident and incident investigations. And nobody can say "no crash, what's the fuzz".
You are making my point...this should be treated like the worse case scenario happened. Because it so easily could have!
And the same attitude should apply to JFK...it easily could have had a different outcome.
The wake up call should be the same whether they missed each other by 50 feet or 500 feet. The gravity of the event is the same.