Now here is a news item worth you Ppruning journos getting into the media
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Not the RAF's superb actions but the utterly ar*e "stick by the book" response from Stanstead (presumably from an ATCO. This is not a dig at ATC, merely the natural presumption that the Seaking would have been refused by ATC)!).
If you have a job of responsibility then you must be empowered to take responsibility. That must include busting the written rules and procedures when it is the correct thing to do, and when it can be done safely.
