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A long-standing safety issue at the Colorado Springs Airport is on the docket to get fixed again, after officials identified it as a priority eight years ago.

A long-standing safety issue at the Colorado Springs Airport is on the docket to get fixed again, after officials identified it as a priority eight years ago.

The bodies were still in there. these things are always catastrophic to work. it is absolutely vital that a group of people do this job so that we understand what happened and don't have a reoccurrence. >> while poor visibility from the tower to the runway and glare shining into the tower are part of the problem, investigators focus on air traffic control. >> air traffic controllers, as a matter of routine multitask. they are issuing landing clearances, take-off clearances, so the multitasking on that evening would not have been unusual. it is very unusual for a controller not to remember that...

>> but according to the ntsb that is exactly what happened. it turns out that the local controller simply forgot that skywest was sitting on the runway intersection. >> there were some things that were going on that did get her distracted. 1493 checked in. she looked. the runway end was clear. and it was just a human error. >> at the ntsb hearings, the air traffic controller robin washer testified that she initially thought it was an act of terrorism. >> 1493 came over the threshold. when the aircraft blew up, i assumed it was a bomb -- that the aircraft had a bomb on board, then it blew up. >...

Investigators focus on air traffic control. >> air traffic controllers, as a matter of routine multitask. they are issuing landing clearances, take-off clearances, so the multitasking on that evening would not have been unusual. it is very unusual for a controller not to remember that they have an airplane in position on a runway. >> but according to the ntsb that is exactly what happened. it turns out that the local controller simply forgot that skywest was sitting on the runway intersection. >> there were some things that were going on that did get her distracted. 1493 checked in. she looked...