Obama Admin On Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers: “We Will Not Sleep” Until This Is Solved…
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Apparently Biden didn’t get the memo.
(RCP) — Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood on air traffic controllers falling asleep at the switch.
“I guarantee the flying public we will not sleep until we can guarantee that there’s good safety in the control towers when these planes are coming in and out of airports,” LaHood told ABC’s “World News.”
Posted by ZIP on Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 8:55 am | 
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Biden will.
I do not understand why they only allow 1 person in the tower when they make the planes they are controlling have 2 people that are qualified to fly it. What if the one guy has a heart attack, stroke or even choked on his lunch?
Kind of like when Obama was focusing like a laser beam on the economy…
Useless Idiot!
He’s from Illinois! He’s an Arab-American! He’s a Republican! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
“I guarantee the flying public we will not sleep until we can guarantee that there’s good safety in the control towers when these planes are coming in and out of airports,” … After that we’ll go back to sleep.
I wonder what time LaHood woke up this morning?
Back in the day (1950s & 1960s), the Calumet Air Force Station radar site was used as a rest site for over-stressed Detroit FAA controllers. One at a time, for a month or two, the most overstressed controllers were sent up to Calumet to put in a night shift up at the site. There was one (Canadair, I think) flight across Lake Superior on the whole shift, and the controller was supposed to be awake for that one flight. Otherwise, they were expected to sleep during the rest of the shift on a cot that the military provided them up in the old, unused projection room in the block house. We had an old radar scope (OA-175 or OA-99, as I recall) up there for them to use for that one flight. It was expected that these guys would sleep, except during the window of time that the one scheduled flight crossed Lake Superior. In Radar Maintenance, we would see the FAA guy going up the ladder to the projection room at start of shift, or coming down from the projection room at the end of his shift. That is all we ever saw of him, unless his equipment needed alignment or repair. “Sleeping on the job” so to speak, was expected, and was not considered wrong.
“…..we will not sleep…..”
I think you need to re-phrase this……..
IT SEEMS YOUR CONTROLLERS DIDN’T HEAR THE “NOT” PART.
In “olden days”, the person monitoring the temperature in the manufacturing of nitroglycerin would sit on a one leg stool. If he fell asleep, he would fall. Seems like we need to do the same with air controllers.