----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant McKenzie" <grantmckenzie@optushome.com.au> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: Doomed Planes Tried to Avoid Collison > When I worked in ATC, a command from the ground was supposed to have > priority. I would imagine Bashkirian Airlines (if their chief > pilot/regulatory overseer were doing their job properly and, with all > due respect to Scotty's passions on the subject of all things Russian, > I'm not convinced was a given) would have a compliance instruction > written into their operations manuals. It is written into their manual from what I was told by a Tu-154 navigator. KrasAir has it written into their ops manual, and he told me that it appears that BAL has it written into theirs as well. This is why I stated that Russian officials were 100% correct.