Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
Claim 2 New laws to protect the CVR are required in the case of a series near miss. The assumption is that either the crew or the tower were aware that the incident was as series as it actually turned out to be. It may not have been clear to the crew just how close it actually was. Unless the tower controller was watching the radar altitude and been aware of the offset, he also may have been unaware the seriousness.
Maybe not as it was happening, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that very soon afterwards all the parties involved would have been perfectly aware how potentially serious the incident had been.
There are only 3 people in the world who know.
The United crew might beg to differ.