Friday, April 15, 2011

FAA tries to quell sleeping controller controversy (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski poses in the cockpit of an FAA jet in a hangar at Washington's Reagan National Airport. Krakowski, the official who oversees the nation's air traffic system resigned Thursday and the FAA began a 'top to bottom' review of the entire system following disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Publicly fuming, the FAA chief collected Thursday the resignation of the head of the U.S. air traffic system, doubled controller staffing at more than two dozen airports and ordered a sweeping review of the entire system that ensures planes fly safely, as the government sought to reassure the public that air travel is safe despite at least four instances of controllers sleeping on the job.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110415/ap_on_re_us/us_sleeping_air_traffic_controllers

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