There is discussion on this on Rumours and news.
I objected strongly there on the BBC news about the fact that they found it necessary to mention the name of the controller on duty and , a sentence further, the “killing “of 118 pax…. I found this totally irreseponsible from serious journalists.
We are repeating the Ueberlingen mistakes again and again…
This is ( parly ) what I also posted in Rumours and news :
The whole Airport structure and safety system failed in Linate.
The controllers gave clear taxi clearances but accepted very poor read backs. The ground signs were inappropriate and some apparently unknown to the ATC staff on duty. It took 30 minutes for the fire rescue to find the Citation hull despite a functioning ELB that could not be heard in the TWR.
These are points that will need very serious review.
The airport had no functioning safety management system in place, and this is seen by the investigators as the main contributing factor.. The report place great emphasis in non-punitive incident reporting to learned from past errors as a basis to improve Safety. .
Sending them to jail will certainly improve the reporting in the future!
I hate to think what they would have done with the Citation pilots if they would have survived the crash...
The final report can be read here :
http://www.havkom.se/virtupload/news...1-04Linate.pdf