Sleeping Controllers News Today

Germany were closed as a precaution. almost 500 flights, mostly in northern britain, were canceled yesterday. fewer flight disruptions predicted for today. the head of the faa revealed two more cases of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job. he told a senate committee that both incidents took place in january at major airports. a napping controller in los angeles was suspended. and another in ft. worth was reprimanded. and that brings the total instances of sleeping controllers to ...

Family and his fiancee as they receive this difficult news and are preparing to bring chris back to his family and friends in the united states. he will be sorely missed. coming up in 25 minutes well be speaking to free lance journalist greg campbell. he traveled to libya with chris hondros. hes been friends with him since they were teenagers. dangerous incidents involving air traffic controller. the faa firing two for sleeping on the job. one worked at the miami air traffic center. the othe...

Staying the same. another air traffic controller suspended along with his manager, this time because he was watching a movie on the job. it happened in cleveland, ohio, over the weekend. and right after the incident of sleeping controllers in washington, in knoxville, tennessee, seattle, reno, nevada and miami. the controller was watching the movie "the cleaner" starring samuel l. jackson but inadvertently left his mike on sending the movies soundtrack over the radio for three minutes. the faa...

Controller was watching a movie on a dvd player on the job. the incident happened sunday in cleveland. it comes just one day after a miami controller was suspended for falling asleep at work. the white house this morning will announce new safety measures aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse in america. its a problem that has become more and more prevalent among teens and young adults. and more protests in syria this morning. thousands of demonstrators have reportedly flooded a major cit...

There at kriv fox 26 in houston were saying wonder if they legalize where is he and what this neighborhood is all about. clearly if you take a left down a street with a cul-de-sac at the end, you probably dont know a whole lot. guns a drawn, weapons are pointed at the vehicle. somebody is getting out of that vehicle. and now the police are hot on and thats probably the end of this, if this person doesnt do anything ridiculous. so its a car chase going down southwest houston there is a lot of new...

I hate to be a conspiracy theorist here. but these stories have been coming to light, you know, almost weekend, day in, day out, and here we are now talking about this. do you think that this may be a more, i dont know, contemplative move by people working within this industry to say, we need better rules here, we need two-man shifts, we need opportunities to be able to take a nap, so to speak, before we come back to this arduous work. >> these issues have been around for a very long time. peopl...

Andy bab bibabbitt also began a nationwide tour today to meet with eric traffic controllers. >> the whole system doesnt need to change. theres 15,000 controllers. seven have been -- were caught sleeping, seven have been suspended. there are seven investigations going on, but in looking at the workplace, we decided we needed to make these changes, but theres 15,000 controllers who go to work every day controlling planes in and out of airports very safely. >> that was ray lahood speaking with cont...

More stunning situations involving faa towers, sleeping controllers, you had the man in charge of it at all on this morning. >> thats right. the secretary of transportation ray lahood, and on our show he announced new work rules. they said theyd have a study, but then saturday morning another controller fell asleep in miami just after a lecture at the control tower about, you know, professionalism, not falling asleep on the job. so we can see how well that worked. theyll change the schedule, but...

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...

The controller slept. on thursday, the man who ran the faas air traffic control operations, hank krakowski, lost his job. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, it hes the kind of behavior that we will not tolerate. >> reporter: the faa has since ordered at least two controllers in every tower thats open for business overnight. but for the flying public its been three weeks of unsettling news about aviation safety. from the sleeping controllers to the 7...