[QUOTE=surface wind] What is safer......an a/c going round the hold with 170 people on board.....or an ATCO taking his break, just before the a/c arrives!
If the controller required a fatigue break then he/she had to take one ,as I have said before this is LAW. Had the controller vectored this aircraft and had an incident with it-perhaps where people on board were injured or worse-then they could be looking at prosecution for negligence and obviously dismissal. Also,regardless of how many people are on board, what is so unsafe about an aircraft holding?