"Mike Gilmour" wrote:
"Private" wrote in message
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Difference between ATC and pilot.
When a pilot makes a mistake the pilot dies.
When ATC makes a mistake the pilot dies.

Happy landings,



Excepting ATC Peter Nielsen who was murdered for his mistake...

A very sad case, in which the controller's instructions appear to have been
but one link in a chain of events and mistakes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkir...es_Flight_2937

It isn't clear that the controller issued mistaken instructions per se. He
obviously didn't anticipate that flight 611 would also descend in response
to its TCAS alerts.