Near miss MAN Mon 23/4?

[PFR]

What's all this in the local `rag' (Knutsford Guardian) and Saturday's Daily Mail about a `near miss' at MAN on Monday 23rd April. Two controllers relieved from duty, CAA investigation etc (according to the paper). BA doing simultaneous departures runway 1 & 2, if all is to be believed.
Any local drivers, controllers care to comment?

[pdc7]

i heard that it was 2 aircraft taking off at the same time, made the radio news aswell

[ATCO Two]

Beware of anyone using the emotive, meaningless and journalistic term "near miss."

[Cmdr Data]

Sounds as if a few journo`s out there are trying to make a mark for themselves. A little knowledge is dangerous!

[Scottie Dog]

Can't agree more. Journalistic license can be a dangerous thing.

Must ask though, was this the first time that mixed mode operations had been used?

Assuming that the Geneva flight was a EMB-145 then presumably it would have been doing a Conga rather than a Honiley SID and so the two aircraft - the other was a DHC-8 operating to Edinburgh - would have been on diverging courses after only 1 mile.

Sadly seems as if the whole thing has probably been blown well out of proportion.

[This message has been edited by Scottie Dog (edited 06 May 2001).]

[tech...again]

...'journo comment' noted.... anyway, shouldn't this kind of thing be referred to in layman's terms as a near hit....(!)

[Robmillo]

But isn't the point here that the two runways are not certified for simultanious operations, therefore any incident of this sort is going to alert interest?