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Overall, management takes the heat, if people are falling asleep on the job, dont blame the union, you blame management. >> eric: you know, it is amazing, people would never imagine the biggest airports in the country you have one guy, one, sitting there overnight, and what if hes sick or, god forbid something happens to him and you are up in the air? >> well, keep in mind, we have to put it into context, at washington reagan, there is a curfew and planes cannot land and the one guy doesnt have ...

Back to back on the overnight shifts. the latest attempt to keep controllers from falling asleep on the job. here we go again. another air traffic controller asleep on the job. this time, during the midnight shift saturday at the miami route traffic control center. now the federal aviation association is making changes, long overdo. >> the fatigue we are seeing is a result of too few qualified controllers in the nation that can fill in. so they are working double shift, four and five nights in a...

A controller caught sleeping on the job again. and mary is an aviation attorney, and the former inspector as well at the department of transportation. good morning. so were having a little audio -- there is it. i think we can hear you now. this is terrifying for travelers. i am a traveler, and you dont wanted to think about napping controllers. is this a new problem or now just coming to light in the wake of the first incident at reagan international? >> its a very old problem. when i was inspec...

75. >> we are investigating and it is clear that hue man error was a factor this. >> human error for the pilot or the controller? >> i dont know, chris. i dont really want to speculate on that until we get the interviews and get into the weeds on it. >> while all of this is going on at airports, the transportation security administration decided to pat down a 6-year-old girl in new orleans a few days ago and she got upset understandably and started crying. i know you dont control tsa but as a go...

Fell asleep on the job, this time in miami, add to that at least a half dozen reports of air traffic controllers dozing off on the job in the past month. those new shift in scheduling changes include controllers who will now have a minimum of nine hours off between shifts. currently they may have as few as eight. controllers will no longer be able to swap shifts unless they have a minimum of nine hours of sleep between the last shift and when they work and want to begin. controller also no longe...

Controllers schedule and there will have to be a minimum of 9 hours of rest time between shifts, and right now, it is 8, and there will not be any swapping of shifts, unless that nine-hour rule is observed and now controllers often juggle the schedules, to get a longer weekend, and, faa managers will be available onsite. shifts, or as of right now theyre apparently absent. the new rules go into effect right away, expected to be fully implemented within 72 hours. >> well have to watch and see hap...

Lubbock, and seattle. transportation secretary, ray lahood, saying, there is no excuse for air traffic controllers to be sleeping on the job. we will do everything that we can to put an end to this. evidence, goldfarb says, the government sees this as a system-wide problem. >> the controller was on duty alone at the time. this time there are 12 controllers on the duty and the controller that fell asleep did not miss any landings. >> we let these guys take a cap nap every once in a while, or they...

>> heather: our nations system is facing a new wake-up call, in the reports air traffic controllers have been napping on the job and the situation led to the resignation of the chief controller last week. in a fox news sunday exclusive, transportation secretary ray la hood revealed what his department is doing to ensure the safety of the flying public. steve has more from the d.c. bureau. >> ray la shooed ensuring the public that safety is the top rye or the. on fox news sunday he unveiled new r...

Traffic control center or tracon. it was one suspended after falling asleep on the midnight shift. he was reported by another controller. according to the faa, the preliminary review of the air traffic tapes indicates that the controller did not miss any calls from aircraft and there was no operational impact. >> faa officials promise to rework air traffic controllers schedules and identify conditions that contribute to these sleeping incidents. dadely storms have pounded the south for two day...

>> reporter: the tornado left just cinder blocks on the dirt. >> my house was there, and all of my belongings are over here. another air traffic controller busted sleeping on the job. hes suspended today. this time it happened overnight in miami. the faa says the controller did not miss any calls, but all seven sleeping incidents that october kurd this year occurred on late night or midnight shifts. nearly 6,000 teachers and administrators in detroit are about to receive their pink slips. th...