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Old 18th Aug 2003, 04:46
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Wedge

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Agree Brocken -

This was a very good reconstruction, and there were all kinds of difficult and unusual circumstances that he was being asked to deal with. Including having to talk with telephone engineers asking him to take the primary phone system offline while dealing with two workstations - en route and approach control. He agreed and was left without a phone. Which would have averted the accident if it was online.

If he is being blamed for what happened, I'm appalled.

I wouldn't want to be a Controller if this is the environment they have to work in.


If anybody is going to stand trial for Manslaughter it should be his managers. To make a scapegoat of this controller for the gaping flaws in the system would be shameful.
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