Originally Posted by
Iron Duck
Precisely. They could have hung the CG captain out to dry by now. They haven't, and as I've said before are studiously ignoring the most important point: that the CG ADS-B was inadequately specified, was faulty, or was inadequately operated, rendering the aircraft invisible. Someone (or some organisation) somewhere, responsible for this, is being protected.
The lack of a transponder is mostly meaningless in this particular case because the airport is equipped with a runway warning system based on primary radar that actually worked, but was set to not produce an audible alert (maybe because of too many false positives) and was to in attendance by any ATC staff at that particular time (but attendance has been made a requirement since the incident happened).
And all the while even if the system was attended to (with or without the transponder) and the aircraft had been "rescued" from disaster, then there would be an investigation as to why the aircraft had entered the runway without runway clearance and the answer to that question is also the ultimate answer to the current investigation.