Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"We have had mandatory six-day work weeks for a few months now and that has led to fatigue and a loss of focus and has reduced our margin for error to a bare minimum. Our normal shift rotation has become a mixture of varying start and stop times and controllers have been pushed to their physical and mental limits."

Source: Steve Merlin, Facility Representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association at the Southern California TRACON. NATCA reports the facility has been hit with five operational errors in less than two weeks -- including three that happened in a span of four recent days -- prompting local Federal Aviation Administration management officials to suspend all training of new controllers for three days to assess the facility’s training and staffing situation.

FMI: www.faa.gov, www.natca.org