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.
The youtube vid some months back had a pilot who had flown in that unit, and he mentioned often getting "do a left 360 for spacing" in the past.
That would have sufficed in this, and other, cases where traffic comes into 33.
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.