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It is difficult. Usualy the penalty for negligence is not death.
One nation jailed a controller for using the split seconds before a crash to yell a warning in his native language rather than in English; I felt that was unfair.
Idi Amin Dada had the controllers who were on duty during the Entebbe Raid beheaded: it is even rumored that he himself beheaded them.
Controllers are sometimes at fault and sometimes it is rather blatant inattention to their duties; sometimes is equipment and workload related.
Pilot error is a standard rubric in air crash investigations and there are often alot of pilot errors but I recall one crash where despite alot of such pilot errors and controller stupidity it was still pilot skill and experience that saved lives! The problem is that as the posters in a pilot's lounge say " A mid air collision can ruin your whole day ". Once two planes collide at high altitude its a bit hard for the pilots to do anything at all, even if they are still alive.
Controller negligence is common though it usually listed as a 'contributing cause' rather than the sole cause of a crash.
Either way, the penalty should not be death.
One nation jailed a controller for using the split seconds before a crash to yell a warning in his native language rather than in English; I felt that was unfair.
Idi Amin Dada had the controllers who were on duty during the Entebbe Raid beheaded: it is even rumored that he himself beheaded them.
Controllers are sometimes at fault and sometimes it is rather blatant inattention to their duties; sometimes is equipment and workload related.
Pilot error is a standard rubric in air crash investigations and there are often alot of pilot errors but I recall one crash where despite alot of such pilot errors and controller stupidity it was still pilot skill and experience that saved lives! The problem is that as the posters in a pilot's lounge say " A mid air collision can ruin your whole day ". Once two planes collide at high altitude its a bit hard for the pilots to do anything at all, even if they are still alive.
Controller negligence is common though it usually listed as a 'contributing cause' rather than the sole cause of a crash.
Either way, the penalty should not be death.