Originally Posted by
xjtguy
True. I can't remember, didn't ATC repeatedtly call them and the calls went unanswered?
Also, if, again IF that was the case, who's to say they would have answered an ACARS or SelCall (if applicable) message from company?
I'm not bashing those guys. But sadly it's been proven, at the end of the day, the responsibility falls on the crew.
If it can be passed down to the lowest level/highest profile level of accountability, it will.
And yes, you're right. It would be interesting to see what th fallout was on the ATC/dispatch end was.
Just conjecturing, but if they flew out of radio coverage with ATC, as frequently happens, they might have noticed the flashing acars msg or selcall chime. I've had it happen in the middle of the night when ATC forgets to hand you off and you fly out of coverage, and gotten an acars msg to contact ATC on xxx freq from dispatch.