ratty1, RNGrommits
you are sooo sooo wrong. 3.30am loads of pressure on the techies, to get the aircraft up, in the middle of their(the techies) circadian dips etc etc etc. This incident will occur over and over again untill they put the failsafe back in.
Grommits you may be an Air Trafficker but if reading the label is so easy, then why do Air Traffickers f**k up just as often as pilots and techies, for example putting aircraft on converging headings at the same height etc. After all your just looking at a screen where every aircraft is given a label arn't you?? Why cant you just read it? Why the problems Grommits, you are only reading labels after all. Maybe its just down to human error chum, something we are all suseptable to arn't we.
you say
'(but then i'm only an air trafficer, and obviously not up on the ins & outs of the complexities of label reading).'
I do hope that improves. You read labels on console, you read labels on radar, you read chinagraph labels in the tower.