Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate
Mr. Diarmuid Ó Conghaile:
In layman's terms, there were two issues. One was that the crew was flying a route and they were not aware that given that route and the altitude at which they were flying, they were on a direct collision course with the island. That was an issue. Also, there was the fact that the island did not appear in some of their navigational databases. I do not want oversimplify it because the AAIU-----
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