Page 193 - Controller News Today

Would get where theyre going a lot quicker, antiquated equipment. >> and -- but like everything is run by computers now. you wonder how this could happen. >> everything is run by computers except the controllers literally talk to each other on land lines still. if one controller is talking to another on a land line to say im going to hand you off such and such a plane, may miss this blip approaching the other one. >> to the los angeles times, roughly 1:31 a.m. eastern time last night, the mars r...

Within two miles of each other while landing. planes are supposed to be kept at least three miles apart. the faa issuing a statement saying this, quote, because the controllers head set jack was operating intermittently, the pilots did not hear all air traffic instructions. however, the pilot of the regional jet saw it. the two aircraft landed safely and the head set jack was fixed immediately after the incident. thats a guerdoning. this comes three days after a near collision between three jets...

"the situation room". we begin with the state of unemployment in america, just three months before election day. both democrats and republicans have something to seize on in the newest jobs report. employers say they added 163,000 jobs to the u.s. economy in july. thats better than economists expected, and something for the obama camp to hang its hat on. but the romney camp is pointing to this figure, the overall unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 8.3%, because american household...

Maybe a little less. listen. im sure you fly. we all fly probably more than the average folk and, you know, you hear the stories and you get nervous. remember a few years ago a controller in new jersey apparently speaking on the phone to the girlfriend about the cat. and that resulted in the scligs of a small plane and a helicopter above the hudson river which killed nine people. >> well, you get these stories, like the sleeping controller story, and you realize you scratch the surface of the sy...

Feet of vertical separation. federal officials insist the two planes were not headed directly towards each other. >> it was not a near-miss, and it was not a near-miss because the planes were not on a collision course and we had a controller who did exactly what she was trained to do. >> reporter: but a former commercial airline pilot said even so, it was a huge mistake. >> on a scale of on 10-10, its approaching eight, a very serious error for this to happen. >> that was nbcs pete williams repo...

Headed toward each other. >> it was not a near miss and wasnt a near miss because the planes really were not on a collision course and we had a controller who did exactly what she was trained to do. >> reporter: but a former commercial airline pilot says even so it was a huge mistake. >> on a scale of 0 to 10, i would say that its approaching 8, somewhere in that range. its a very serious error. >> that was pete williams reporting. house transportation committee, the ntsb and the faa are now all...

All three were u.s. airways planes. there were no injuries. u.s. airways put out a statement saying they, too, were investigating and their top priority is always the safety of their employees and passengers. you remember national airport the location last year of that incidents involving air traffic controllers also in which one of them fell asleep and a plane copping in for landing couldnt contact the controller. megyn: this is not the first mistake at reagan national. we are told air traffic ...

National airport outside washington. the federal aviation administration now confirms a mix-up at control tower allowed two planes to take off in the danger zone of a plane that was landing. all the aircraft were us airways commercial jets like the one you see here. according to the transportation secretary, the controller realized the problem and had the jets move out of the way. but the feds are investigating whatever it was that went wrong. and now, live to dca this afternoon. steve? >>guest:...

They actually had taken off. at the same time, one was coming in from the north and making its landing so at last minute they steered the landing plane out of the way of the other to that were taking off and they came 1 1.5 miles of each other and 800 vertical feet so it is a near miss. the transportation secretary held a news conference. here is what he said. >> at no point, were these planes on a head to head collision course. there was going to be no head to head collision of the planes. but ...

They got too close, in the standard separation this is called a "near mission." ray lahood held a news conference today and had this to say about it. >> at no time were these planes on a head to head collision course. there was going to be no head to head collision of the planes. there was a loss of separation. it shouldnt have happened. because of a well-trained controller at dca tower, who immediately recognized the situation and, worked to fix it. >>reporter: that means they got closer than 1...