wessidemike
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- Sep 1, 2004
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Things seem to be getting pretty bad on the ATC side of aviation. Take a few minutes and look at the website. Please It's for our safety. How things are looking, it's only going to get worse!!! Link at bottom. And please send a message to our Congressman. It only takes a minute.
- August 14, Los Angeles: During a period of serious understaffing, two passenger planes come within 100 feet of each other.
- August 24, Newark: Controllers call on FAA to end violations of landing procedures at Newark airport. FAA takes no action.
- August 25, Oakland: During a busy time of day a single controller is forced to direct over 50 passenger jets by himself.
- September 2-5, San Juan, PR: Three power outages in three days leave controllers scrambling to keep airplanes separated.
- October 3, Washington, DC: Radar failure makes certain planes invisible to air traffic controllers.
- October 10, Orange County, CA: Air traffic control communications system fail, hampering controllers at the busiest air traffic center in the country.
- October 10, Boston, MA: Air traffic controllers saw "false targets" on their radar scopes - blips that they knew were not planes in flight.