New ATC Documentary on BBC2

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Tonight's programme - Skyguide - Peter "X"

I am watching the latest in this series and am appalled that it would appear, at least from what I believe I just heard, that the Danish ATC who was working two screens, who had no working telephone service, whose screen was faulty therefore not showing a collision alert, is being blamed for what happened over Lake Constance??!! Surely this can't be true .. OK so maybe he could have called a colleague back from break to work the second station but neither of them would still have been able to telephone the airport control tower.

My heart goes out to him ...

It also appears that the Tupolev's pilots were (1) 8yrs experience (in command) and (2) airline chief pilot (second in command) and the second in command overruled TCAS and overruled the captain...