A couple of things concern me over this.
1. The report identifies the sexes of the people involved, and a later report on the CNN website also quotes a 'female NATS safety spokesperson' who also speaks in the 3rd person about those involved. This erodes the anonymity of those involved.
2. There have been 2 incidents recently involving trainees, one at a unit where training boxes were allegedly faulty, and the other at a unit where training boxes weren't even available before this incident.
I hope if any good comes out of this, it's that proper training boxes are made mandatory and that proper appropriate counselling is given to trainee and mentor in both instances.
Learning this job is hard enough without trainees' misjudgements being plastered across the press, especially at a time when NATS is very much in the media spotlight.
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