Originally Posted by
Cris
So the only story here of this non-story is how/why the ATC could not/did not see BA on the radar?
Pure speculation, but the story says that the climb instruction was given to UL soon after it entered Turkish airspace, and that the BA was behind the UL. So perhaps the BA hadn't yet been handed off to the Turkish controller and wasn't in his mental picture, so it was overlooked?