N380UA:
Glad you've read that letter.
You will, however, have noted that Skyguide's SMOP rules at the time did not permit two adjacent sectors to be covered by one controller, yet on that night that precisely was the case....... (apart from the fact that the SMOP rules had never been approved for night operations at Skyguide).
There is also clear reference to the fact that the Duty Supervisor must - according to SMOP rules - regularly check for actual traffic load on SMOP-controlled sectors. There was, as we know, no Duty Supervisor assigned on that night.
Proceed as Cleared
Permit me to yawn....... and add that if this collision had taken place over a third world country with a Swiss aircraft involved and a similar mess had been identified at that country's ATC, there would have been a massive outcry (with tabloid Blick leading the pack, of course).
Checking out now
