Originally Posted by anotherthing
I'd defy any ATCO not to try to give vectors or suggest safe headings in the situation above - particularly when it happens in a hold for an LTMA airport, such as Scuzi mentioned in his post - the incident was shown on TRUCE a while back and it was horrendous.
Which is exactly what the controller did (if it's the incident I'm thinking of).......the STCA gave a few seconds notice and he stared trying to get some lateral (as luck would have it, 2 of them were just starting their turns back inbound to BNN) when TCAS took over.