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Cows getting bigger
One can hardly pile huge amounts of blame on the F15 guy. This reads like one monumental airspace coordination and planning cock-up.
Not sure the F15 pilot comes out completely squeaky clean. But the F15 pilot and his/her controller do seem to have been rather dropped in it.
Two days before the aircraft proximity occurred, he [fighter controller] had expressed his concerns to the fighter allocator regarding the conditions of the exercise, i.e. the location of the regen airfield close to an active airway and the airway itself. The fighter allocator had informed the liaison officer at Leeuwarden Air Base about this. This message did not result in any changes.