Air Traffic Control Issues

[Brissy1]

No trainee involved

Well that would certainly change things.

If ATSBs statement "training underway in the tower" and
Airservices statement "supervising controller immediately identified the potential for conflict and directed the controller to cancel the take-off clearance"
but there's no trainee, then yes sounds like a cover-up

 

[Melburnian1]

The episode isn't helping to instil confidence in airline passengers within, out of and into Australia.

A cover-up would be most unlikely to occur in a more easily visible surface mode such as rail over which the ATSB also has jurisdiction, so it ought not be tolerated in aviation or for that matter, marine.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

When did social media get added as a step in the aviation incident reporting process?

I must have missed that change to official procedures

It happened on Sunday.
It wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

The Media is not the ATSB.

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.
According to the head of the ATSB.

 

[Quickstatus]

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

The media is still not the ATSB.

 

[RooFlyer]

The media is still not the ATSB.

I believe @esseeeayeenn was talking about reporting to the ATSB, not the ‘media’, when querying why it wasn’t reported originally. It was others I think including yourself who just brought the media and social media up.

I find it impossible to understand or accept why this wasn’t reported on Sunday and has taken several days to emerge. Was it covered up?

It happened on Sunday.
It wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.
According to the head of the ATSB.

The ASB announced to the media very soon after they discovered it, so it only ‘emerged’ then.