I think what (almost) everyone is missing is that none of us were there with the radio, in the full scale, or behind the Tx of the rc plane.
All the Monday morning quarterbacks here that think they know exactly what they would have done in any of these folk's shoes
are full of it.
804,
"Full of it."
I don't understand that?
Radio? A non issue because they may not be working.
My comments are correct. First pass, just get out of the pilots way ASAP. Simply tap, on the shoulder, the R/C modeler that's flying the model airplane and he gets his model on the ground ASAP. Every runway has shoulders. He could land his model on that. Doesn't take much time or area to put a 3D model airplane on the ground.
BTW. It's Monday morning quarterbacking that resolves issues and conflicts. Important issues and important conflicts, especially if it's done in an adult manner without bias. Investigations happen after the fact and one has to start someplace.
When "bias" is in the equation, nothing gets accomplished. You just have continuous conversation and no agreement.
Perspective? Why would anyone disagree, that the field should have been cleared immediately?
This "IS" a good starting point for agreement.