FAA Spokesman Has A Lot To Say About Union's "Melodramatic
Rhetoric"
In the ongoing war of words between the Federal Aviation
Administration and the National Air Traffic Controllers
Association, it's sometimes difficult to tell where to separate the
wheat from the chaff, as it were. Over the past year-and-a-half
that controllers have worked under a contract imposed upon them by
the FAA, the union has stepped up its efforts to portray the agency
as disconnected -- even bumbling -- and uncaring about the needs of
its controllers. But none of that compares to what NATCA had to say
Friday. In a release to numerous media outlets, including ANN, the
union insinuated the actions of an FAA supervisor may have
interfered with controllers' efforts to hear a pilot's "Mayday"
call in Nort
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