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The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire an air traffic controller who it says decided to nap on the job while working the midnight shift in the radar room at a Tennessee airport in February. Unlike the controller supervisor at Reagan National Airport who told officials that he inadvertently dozed off while working the overnight shift in the tower last month, the controller at Knoxville's airport intentionally napped while seven planes landed over a five-hour period on Feb. 19, according to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt.
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WASHINGTON - Two airliners landed at Reagan National Airport near Washington without control tower clearance because the air traffic supervisor was asleep, safety and aviation officials said Wednesday. The supervisor - the only controller scheduled for duty in the tower around midnight Tuesday when incident occurred - had fallen asleep, said an aviation official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident.
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WASHINGTON - The air traffic controller handling the small plane involved in a deadly crash with a helicopter over the Hudson River was chatting on the telephone about a dead cat at the airport and initially failed to warn the pilot of other aircraft in his path, officials say. The controller tried unsuccessfully to contact the pilot before the accident, officials said Friday, but the plane collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River, killing nine people.
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DISASTER WAS averted last week at one of Washington's airports, after the lone air traffic supervisor in the tower was so sleepy that neither pilots' requests for landing help - nor phone calls from controllers elsewhere - could rouse him. Fortunately, two airliners landed safely early Wednesday while the controller was sleeping. The planes carried a total of 165 passengers and crew.
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An air traffic controller was suspended for reportedly sleeping while working at a regional station in Palmdale that oversees Southern California's airspace, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday. The incident occurred in January at the Los Angeles Center in Palmdale, which handles high-altitude traffic for all of Southern California as well as portions of Nevada and Arizona and a small area above southwestern Utah, according to the FAA.
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Senator [Dianne Feinstein]'s letter to Rep. Ray LaHood (D-Ill.) specifically cites staffing shortages at Los Angeles International Airport and at the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility in San Diego. The LAX tower is the fourth-busiest in the nation and it faces an ongoing runway incursion problem that has been attributed in part to controller fatigue. The Southern California TRACON handles more flights than any TRACON in the world, and its operational errors are way up. For instance, in November, a controller mistake put a Southwest Airlines jet and an Alaska Airlines jet on a collision course while both planes were maneuvering to land in San Diego. The Wall Street Journal reported in November that six such incidents have occurred this year in the skie...
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An air traffic controller was suspended for reportedly sleeping while working at a regional station in Palmdale that oversees Southern California's airspace, the Federal Aviation Administration said last week. The incident occurred in January at the Los Angeles Center in Palmdale, which handles high-altitude traffic for all of Southern California as well as portions of Nevada and Arizona and a small area above southwestern Utah, according to the FAA.
