NTSB investigates go-around! REALLY!

[igneousy2]

NTSB OPENING INVESTIGATION INTO AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL INCIDENT INVOLVING AIRCRAFT CARRYING MICHELLE OBAMA
The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into an air traffic control incident on Monday in which the airplane carrying First Lady Michelle Obama aborted a landing attempt at Andrews Air Force Base after an air traffic controller had sequenced it too close to another military plane.
At about 5 pm ET on April 18, the military version of a B-737 that Mrs. Obama was traveling in was directed to abort its landing attempt after the required minimum separation between it and a C-17 military aircraft that was landing ahead of it was compromised.
The incident involved Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers at the Potomac TRACON facility in Virginia and at the Andrews tower in Maryland.
NTSB Air Traffic Control specialist Dan Bartlett is the investigator-in-charge. Parties to the investigation are the FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers union.
Media contact:
Peter Knudson
202-314-6100

 

[igneousy2]

Up until recently I have had a lot of respect for the job that the NTSB does...they at least tried to give the appearence of being above the frey of politics. My view has recently changed and because of there stance in the Northwest overflight, there statements about sleeping controllers, and now this...oh well, I guess there is no longer ANY department in the federal government worth keeping.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

This is riding the coattails of all the current ATC issues.

What a waste. Its a formality due to the VIPs on board. Look at how JFK Jr was treated as well as other high profile accidents.

 

[GogglesPisano]

Safety is increasingly being measured by the court of public opinion by way of the 24-hr news networks. Sleeping controllers vs shark attacks. Terrorist threat levels vs sticky accelerators. Americans are terrible -- terrible at evaluating risk and taking actions to avoid it.

And the political appointees in charge of agencies now feel the need to fire controllers and pilots to appease news an ignorant public stoked by slightly less ignorant news anchors.

 

[LJ45]

NAACP next?

 

[248to2.8]

We would be so lucky

 

[kf4amu]

NAACP may say that it was a right wing conspiracy

 

[Flash]

NAACP may say that it was a right wing conspiracy

Was the right wing closer or the left wing?

 

[N1atEcon]

Waste of time and our money.

 

[SLUF4]

pretty ridiculous