A tower-induced go-round

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
So pilots experience ten mid-airs, two NMACs, and six ground collisions
each year without any controller involvement. Good point, well taken.

No, no, no. With and without controllers available. If your
prognostication that the Godly controllers save all we pitiful pilots
from slamming into each other, then there should be a comiserate
increase in the number of such events. That it is so low is a testament
of how little controller involvement A): exists, and B): is necessary to
safe separation of traffic.

What point were you trying to make?

That communication and/or ATC causes at least as many accidents as there
are mid-airs and NMACs. If it's included as a header title, there is at
least one directly-attributable accident to ATC, which soundly disproves
that said Godly controllers are A): infallible, as you seem to think
them, and B): that they always give proper instruction in a situation,
disproving your absolutes.

TheSmokingGnu