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Old 1st August 2025 | 09:05
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50

I'm going to offer a contributing cause that I think merits consideration: there was mention made early on of there being 1, not 2, tower controllers on duty at the time when apparently 2 is the normal number.
Had there been two, the helicopter might have been handled differently, but we'll never know.
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Yes , but for me more important is the fact that a single controller was handling 2 frequencies that were not really coupled, the CRJ did not hear the RAT and vice versa, both only heard what the controller said not the questions asked , The single controller was also busy doing 2 jobs and quite busy with Runway 1 OPS , so probably that is why he did not find the time top pass essential traffic info to the CRJ . 2 controllers might have changed something, yes, but only " might" because in that case , both would have been on 2 separate frequencies , if traffic info was not passed to the CRJ , the result could have been the same .

For me the key point of this accident is the 100 ft procedural separation planned between a Heli route and a non precision ( e.g visual) approach path . The rest are just more holes in the cheese.

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