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Friday, 13 May 2011 13:02 |
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by Jason Gallagher
It has been a difficult year so far for air traffic controllers. The profession has recently received a fair amount of public scrutiny due to a variety of problems. A few controllers were fired for an incident involving a flight with First Lady Michelle Obama aboard, according to PTI, and a few more were fired for sleeping on the job, as reported by Reuters. The profession may be invisible to the majority of travelers, but it provides crucial communication for pilots and the airline industry in general.
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Monday, 09 May 2011 05:57 |
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By Josh Harkinson of MotherJones.com
Last week, a computer glitch at Houston's air traffic control center caused dozens of flights to be delayed for up to an hour. Though it didn't put any planes in danger, the episode was another unwelcome bit of bad P.R. for the nation's air traffic controllers. In the past month and a half, five air traffic controllers were found to be asleep on duty, sometimes missing calls from pilots. Late last month, a mistake by a controller caused First Lady Michelle Obama's jet to fly too close to a military cargo plane.
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 14:01 |
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The National Office is proud to announce to you the regional winners of the 7th Annual Archie League Medal of Safety Awards, as chosen on Jan. 6 by our judges panel (NATCA Director of Safety and Technology Dale Wright, AOPA Air Safety Foundation President Bruce Landsberg, and Capt. Jeffrey Skiles, co-pilot who helped bring US Airways Flight 1549 to a safe landing on the Hudson River in 2009).
The winners will be honored at a special banquet on the evening of March 23 at the 2011 Communicating for Safety conference in Las Vegas.
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Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:55 |
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Welcome to the ZFW NATCA Local website. Air Traffic Controllers at the Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZFW), which began operations at our present location in March 1962, direct aircraft flying in a 147,000-square-mile area that covers portions of five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico).
 On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies above the United States. At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the U.S. Only one-third are commercial carriers, like American, United or Southwest, the rest being general aviation, air taxis, military aircraft, cargo planes, helicopters, etc. America's sophisticated air traffic control system handles more than half of the world's air traffic and cargo. The men and women who make up our national air traffic control workforce ensure the safety of nearly 600 million aviation passengers per year.
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