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When VFR Goes Wrong - A tower controller loses track and aircraft collide
The traffic pattern at San Diego’s Brown Field Municipal Airport (SDM), managed by a contract control tower, can be near chaotic on a Sunday morning with a mix of rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft, business jets and trainers, and even exotic sport planes. Such was the case on Aug. 16, 2015, when a North American Rockwell Sabreliner 60 and a Cessna 172 collided on final to Runway 26R. Both airplanes crashed and two pilots in each were killed. (aviationweek.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sorry meant to say plays into a crash.
So once again the human factor overload pays into a crash. However, much responsibility, or lack of it, the NTSB put on the LC it still is the responsibility of the fight crew to determine if an unsafe situation is occurring.
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It will be in the NTSB database or google it. You'll get all you want to read.