Originally Posted by
henra
While from a pure legal perspective you are right, these two controllers will have to live with the knowledge that they could have saved these two people for the rest of their lives.
Whilst this comment is harsh, it is not unjustified.
It is clear that other posters on this thread have not read the Accident Report (or my modest summary in Post #90).
The ATC effort was nowhere close to the best that British ATC can do. If it was, then there would be aircraft collisions and crashes all the time in the UK.
The only reason that ATC are not fully responsible for the crash is that the poor pilot (now dead) clearly contributed to his own problems.
I hope that the Health and Safety Executive investigate this crash, to see if ATC response met statutory minimum standards.
All the Accident Report's recommendations related to ATC.
All round, a very sad set of circumstances,
IB