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"that guy just passed us and that was not good." the ntsb says it was a series of mistakes and miscommunication but the key factors were the cargo jet was being controlled by a different controller than the 777. the controller handling the 777 failed to keep the plane below 20,000 feet as requested. >> the community tries very hard to learn everything it can from these events. we don't want any compromise of the separation criteria. that clearly happened. these events are taken very seriously. we continually try to improve. >>trace: the report does not say if the two controllers involved were ...

He will require to controllers in that tower. >> there are some statistics as well. there has been an increase, 51% increase, in error from these air traffic controllers. i assume that, you know, there are times when they have to leave the tower and go to the bathroom or perhaps they haven't gotten enough sleep. do you have a sense of why this is taking place? >> iny th think that the errors you're talking about, violation of the separation criteria where airplanes get closer together than they should. it's important to figure in the equation the fact that the faa now has set up a system that ...