Originally Posted by
triathlon
the landing aircraft has the right of way
. FACT ! …
The aircraft taking off must give way .
FACT !….
With all due respect , how dare you tell me to pull my head in . Who do you think you are , some sort of Sky god ?
With crossing runways dependent on perfect communications and not visual clearance of traffic, the potential for a failure is built in by design. No matter how clear the obligation may be for right of way, I would suggest the wreckage here suggests that the perfect world necessary for Triathlons blunt comments didn't exist on this day, and has been the case for decades.
Any system that relies on perfection of process to be safe,
isn't. It is relying on backups, and in this case there are precious few backups.
For the amount of flight operations in Australia, mid-airs are over represented, our system is bettered by many third world airspace. ADSB OUT
AND IN makes a difference. Having recently avoided 2 different conflicts in short succession due to
ADSB IN, I am concerned by the robustness of Aus airspace.