angry wrote:

Yes, that's what I ment - the ATC put unnesesary pressure to the poor pilot.
By playing the "authority" too much, he forced the pilot into taking his
advice as one that is overriding, so the russian pilot flew into the other
aircraft - this is why I call the ATC murderer. If the russian pilot had
made a mistake, be it because of CRM issues or other, I could have said that
he is a fool - but he is not. That's sad!

There's no such thing as "playing authority" in the ICAO or JAA docs,
the authority is either there or it's not. And the controller couldn't
give an "overriding advice" - he didn't have anything to override, and
there's no such thing as overriding an RA by ATC anyway. The controller
acted based on the information available and the authority granted to
him, and the BAL crew should've done the same. They hadn't, and killed
their passengers, the other crew and themselves. It's sad allright.


Dima