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System itself is safe. there is a lot of things that go into the margin of safety that we talk about to make sure that we didn't get to the point where an accident happens. >> geraldo: back to robert. shouldn't we fire controllers who fall asleep? why suspend them and then in a week or two the scandal is blown over. i don't want the controller sleeping when i'm in the here, particularly with my family. >> you can't blame it all on f.a.a. management and you can't blame it all on the controllers either. it is two fold. the schedules that we have been talking about that produce fatigue have been ...

System itself is safe. there is a lot of things that go into the margin of safety that we talk about to make sure that we didn't get to the point where an accident happens. >> geraldo: back to robert. shouldn't we fire controllers who fall asleep? why suspend them and then in a week or two the scandal is blown over. i don't want the controller sleeping when i'm in the here, particularly with my family. >> you can't blame it all on f.a.a. management and you can't blame it all on the controllers either. it is two fold. the schedules that we have been talking about that produce fatigue have been ...

Describes as defensive missions. these are missions that actually take out air defense installations on the ground here in libya. now, the difference between that and offensive missions is that offensive missions are taking out gadhafi's forces directly. it does seem, however, to be a bit of splitting hairs. >> thanks, stephanie gosk in libya. thanks. another story that has to have some people scared this morning. the faa has seen enough after a rash of incidents involving sleeping air traffic controllers. the faa in charge of the nation's skies laid down the law with new rules for control t...

Personal video player. that went into all of the cockpits and they were wondering what the heck was going on. on april 16th a controller in miami, a controller caught sleeping. april 13th a controller sleeping. no answer in the tower. two controllers in will you be he can, texas failed to respond to calls. another controller sleeping forcing two jet liners to come in on their own with no help from the tower. february 19th a controller fell asleep for five hours at a knoxville, tennessee airport. in january, a controller in seattle nodded off twice in the same shift. we've got a problem here. w...