All right, admit it... who doesn't chuckle when recalling the movie
"Airplane?" Even now, so many years later, you can find something
new in it you didn't catch before. It was the first in its genre
and a favorite of aviation enthusiasts everywhere.
"When FAA says that safety wasn't compromised, it trivializes
what we do as their traffic controllers. And safety was definitely
compromised and it was the air traffic controllers and the
compliance of the pilots that ensured the safety that day, not the
FAA."
Source: NATCA Regional President Scott
Pressley. Air traffic controllers in Birmingham, AL continue to
butt heads with the FAA over the severity of a radar outage last
month, that snarled flights for over five hours.
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