Mr. Nicholas Robinson at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On February 25th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2020 / 4:15 p.m.

Director General, Civil Aviation, Department of Transport

I would say no. I would not say that this could have absolutely prevented one.

What we were doing was addressing a safety risk that we saw and identifying a way that we believed could reduce the reaction time of air crew and could help them address that situation. I don't think any measure you could put in place could say absolutely that an aircrew would be able to respond.

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