Originally Posted by
Chiefttp
“IMO it’s a total brain fart by Tower.”
And this is what this whole incident will boil down to, “What the Heck was Tower thinking?”
Sorry for repeating myself yes the controller is the one that initated this mess, but all the barriers after that to prevent it failed. If we keep on saying: "controller brain fart" = incident explained , no need to do anything else, it is not going to get better with time .
Looks like everyone in the chain accepted the error as "normal ops" : the SW lining up knowing there was traffic a 3NM, the Fedex wondering is the runway was clear where in fact it is the protection area he should have been worried about : i.e the quality of the ILS signal to perform the autoland, lack of standard phraseology leading to confusion : (e.g " abort" ) lot of cheese layers missing and too many holes in those remaining.