FAA investigating JFK air traffic controllers allowing child to direct pilots

[Grandpa +65]

When I've had kids visit the cockpit during boarding, I let them say hello to their parents over the PA. Should I fill out an ASAP for this now?

Ding!!! right on the money

 

[Whine Lover]

Absolutely unacceptable.

The Father should get the chair, the Kid should be doing Life in Sing-Sing, and the rest of the Family and relatives should be rounded up and sent to work camps.

This aggression can not stand.


YKW

 

[nimtz]

Yeah feds go ahead and throw the book at this guy. In return the guys working JFK (through just a little job action tweaking) can make turn that place into daily Hades this summer. Those guys are a loyal bunch so don't think that an unlikely scenario.

What a pathetic society we live in that we let this get our panties into a bunch. Contrast that with the fact at LONG LAST Charlie Rangel got booted off The House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship today. Watch that get shuffled under the news pile cause a child in a control tower put passenger lives at risk! Great priorities our country allows to be set by the media...

 

[wms]

The kid was just repeating instructions, not actually directing the traffic. Now if it was an intern being allowed to fly the plane...

 

[embpic1]

I agree. This is a non-event. Like many said, this was something that will change this kids life. Unfortunately it will be the day he cost his dad's career. Something I am sure will haunt him the rest of his life. The problem is the fact that this got out to the media. The general public gets real excited about crap like this. If you think this is the first time this has happened you are kidding yourself.

 

[Whataburger]

Just listened to it on the news. He did a nice job and the pilots seemed to enjoy it.

 

[uspilot]

Guys please lets find a way to support this guy to get his job back. As a JFK based pilot he was one of the best we had. This is so sad.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

It sounds to me like the kid did a better job of controlling than a certain female controller in Providence a few years ago!

 

[Dornier 335]

... and I thought things would relax a bit with the "new" FAA administrator!

 

[no1pilot2000]

Life at the FAA must be slow these days if they make a non-issue an issue.

 

[MrCoffee]

We live in such a sterilized society now that it is just a matter of time before "fun" is illegal. Instead, it'll be "was that safe or what?" "wanna go have some safe?" "my safe meter is pegging!"

 

[Dornier 335]

Life at the FAA must be slow these days if they make a non-issue an issue.

Errr ... I have never seen a "fast" day at the FAA (except when the clock strikes 4 : 00 pm).

 

[waveflyer]

I actually did fly a plane as an intern---
what a complete bs story. I would hope they would encourage this type of thing-
And it does make me pissed that with all the very real safety concerns the FAA ought to be dealing with (rest, outsourcing etc) that this will occupy a second of their time-
I recommend letters written as professionally as possible how ridiculous this story is and expressing support for the controllers

 

[Salukipilot4590]

We live in such a sterilized society now that it is just a matter of time before "fun" is illegal. Instead, it'll be "was that safe or what?" "wanna go have some safe?" "my safe meter is pegging!"

That's about the way it was in college for me... Party school? I think not...

... and I thought things would relax a bit with the "new" FAA administrator!

I see what you did there...you put relax and the FAA in the same sentence....nice!

 

[Dornier 335]

The crime has been recorded and made public through You Tube. I agree with Whine Lover's proposal for punishment.

You Tube