"It Started last Tuesday, with the audition of 2 senior management staff of Zurich ACC, who rejected all responsibility, and declared that the " fault" lies solely with the air traffic controller on duty that night ( who unfortunately will not be there to defend himsef )."
As I remember it, this ATCO was left on his own, without STCA, doing two jobs on radar screens separated by 20 yards and some of the telephone system on MTX? And they want to blame him? In my view his principal error was to allow management to put him in that position in the first place.
If they get away with pinning the blame on this ATCO then every ATCO out there is in deep water: It means ATSPs can run their system in a seriously flawed state without being liable when the guy on the front line is unable to make up for those inadequacies. It is not the job of the ATCO to make up for shortcomings in ATC system design and that he should have been asked to do so is unacceptable.
If their defence wins the day then it is time to hang up the headset.
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