DozyWannabe: You say "right where it says "VHF contact" for starters. If the controllers saw it there they should have warned them."
Just because there was VHF contact does not mean there was radar contact; there are a number of reasons for that.
Can you give me one good reason why the radar controller, IF he had observed a brief paint, would not have advised the pilot of what he had seen ?
On a separate subject, I note you never replied to the questions I asked in post #131.