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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:22:33:00

Traffic controllers, eric bitman is not surprised. he is a controller. the job is stressful. it makes you tired right there then you change to midshift, where you stay up all night long, stare at blank cope with no traffic. they stresses, such as single parenthood, day care issues and regular overnight shift and you have recipe for fatigue, with at least five controllers found sleeping on the job, the latest saturday in miami, secretary of transportation responded with a flurry of rule changes, that include no less than nine hours between shift, no swapping of shifts so controllers can extend their weekends. managers will be made available early morning and late nights. new handoff procedures will be put in place between regional radar controllers and the local airport controllers. faa administrator randy babbitt and the national association president rinaldi embarked on a call to action tour to sell changes to the ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:16:09:00

Managers will be present at early morning hours and also late night hours. in addition to that there will be a new hand off procedure between regional radar controllers and air traffic controllers in the tower. at 11:00 this morning the faa administrator randy babbitt and paul reynaldi spoke to reporters in slant about this issue as part of a tour they are conducting. they basically echoed the sentiments of ray lahood. here is what lahood had to say yesterday. we are going to make sure that controllers are well rested. we will inch sraoes the rest time by an hour. this is what we ve recommended there pilots going from eight our rest to nine our rest. reporter: we found out from the faa that all of the rule changes do not include the ability for these controllers to take a nap during their break time in those off morning hours. that s something that a lot of people suggests need to happen for this thing to be fully ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110418:20:25:00

Proposed several rule changes which will take effect immediately. among them, nine hours off, now, between shifts and no swapping of shifts, so, air traffic controllers can spend the weekend. and managers are present for late-night shifts and early morning hours, and in addition, there is a new hand off procedure between the regional radar controllers and local air traffic controllers. and early this morning the f.a.a. administrator and the president of the national air traffic controllers association met with reporters and a group of air traffic controllers in atlanta to out line the plans a scale to action, a tour they are taking all week. we take responsibility in the management side in terms of scheduling. we will work together. we found through modern medicine and studies ways, we will eliminate the things that can be ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110414:13:30:00

Controller was asleep. the pilot s call signal you will hear is cheyenne lifeguard. 2:00 a.m. in the skies over reno. lifeguard reporter: the pilot of this medevac plane with a seriously ill patient onboard urgently needed to land. reno tower reporter: no answer from the tower, but radar controllers in northern california were listening. we re going to call him on the phone lines. all right. we ll circle. reporter: despite phone calls to the reno tower, still no answer. finally the medevac pilot told california controllers he couldn t wait any longer. we ve got a pretty sick patient. we have to land. lifeguard two tango reporter: the faa says the controller two year obs the job admits he d fallen asleep. this is outrageous, tom. we will not tolerate this kind ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110414:09:37:00

Four more air traffic controllers were suspected of falling asleep on the job. in the tower. the latest incident was in nevada. where a plane carrying a sick passenger was forced to land with no clearance from that tower. they simply couldn t get answer. as nbc s tom kocostello reports this is part of a disturbing trend. reporter: it was early morning in reno. the pilot of this medevac plane with a seriously ill patient on board urgently trying to land. no answer from the tower. but radar controllers in northern california were listening. okay, we re going to call them on the phone line. all right, we ll circle, some more. reporter: despite phone calls to the reno tower still no answer. finally the medevac pilot told california controllers, he ....

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