If the papers and "journo's" are writing about these stories surely they are happening with some degree of repitition, as pointed out by my able friend. Now consider this, if you have one half of this forum writing about RVSM stories and their potential consequences and the other half babbling on about privatization of ATC and the potential impact it may have with ever increasing number of movements surely these incidents can sparsly afford to become a regular feature of air travel, or an irregular news story.
You can look at it like this, if a car carrying 4 peolpe runs a red light who is ever going to know, a bus with 50 people maybe the passangers will have something to say, a train carying 150 people, you bet the peolpe using that line everyday will want to know a little more, what about the South African Airways boeing 747 and the a/c that had not vacated the runway?
Yes granted there are proceedures and well established proceedures at that, but what about the one that could'nt get way, bird strike, unfavourable wind conditions.
Keeping these incidents in the lime light is healthy, it should not only be shared with us few on pprune, people should have the right to know every risk associated with whatever they choose to do, particularly when they are not in control of the outcome. Keep it in the press, drive the law makers to make correct descisions and maybe then people will feel more relaxed
VF