An unnamed air traffic restrainer at Knoxville ’s McGhee Tyson airport fell gone for five hours during his night shift on Feb. 19 , pass on seven aircraft to land without their elementary officer . And he did it intentionally .
There are n’t any detail currently usable as to why the man decided that it was a particularly adept time for a nap , though the FAA has — more than six hebdomad subsequently — finally fired him for it . And while the five hours of radio muteness in Knoxville vastly overshadows the 45 minutes or so ATCwent quiet at Reagan National recently , at least this time another controller was on hand to help oneself bring in the seven planes safely .
https://gizmodo.com/air-traffic-control-abandoned-as-two-passenger-planes-t-5785259
The FAA is apparently conducting a nationwide review of staff during midnight shifts , since understandably — with two harrowing incidents in about a calendar month — something in the system is violate .
Again , press tin is one of the hardest jobs there is ; the stress and the stakes could n’t be high . But an occasional lapse in judgment , while having potentially terrifying results , is at least jolly apprehensible . decide that you ’re going to catch up on some shuteye for five hour when hundreds of lives count on your mental agility — to say nothing of your consciousness — is downright vicious .
However the FAA make up one’s mind to fix the problem , let ’s trust they do it before the next plane — and its 100 of passengers — has to shore without a usher . [ USA Today ]
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