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Covering up the fact that their air traffic control system a mess. it is mismanaged at top. there is no fix in process. they have been doing this 20 year and giving excuses. it is only hard work by controllers keeping us safe. as a result of that controllers get the brunt of a lot of controller errors are due to equipment, not necessarily the controllers themselves. jon: there have been some recent, you know, fairly notable problems at that particular airport, at reagan national. you had an airline, airline, air traffic controller falling asleep in the cockpit. that kind of thing. you had the ...

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 seven just this year alone. a government watchdog says that the surge in controller errors is real n...

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Can you really say with confidence that it happens all the time? >> we know errors are happening all the time. we know controller errors are up this year over last year. that's what they've reported. and if you go back and look at the shan nan anyone begnan nann they report airs we have problems that need to be fixed. airplanes bumping into each other is a serious matter. >> the faa just implemented this new set of rules. do you think there's been a widespread lack of professionalism in the towers because we've had controllers are falling asleep, even watching movies on the job. >> that's the ...

Figure out why they are making so many dangerous errors. there have been a half dozen incidents where airlines came close to crashing with other planes. in some cases pilots made last second changes in direction when cockpit alarms went off. joining me no is mary xeef vo. what's the problem out there? >> in the washington, d.c. area, there's a lot of focus between the air traffic control facilities, reagan national airport and dulles airport. they have been directing traffic into each other's areas and there's a real issue as to why they are making those mistakes. those are controller errors a...