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I hate to be a conspiracy theorist here. but these stories have been coming to light, you know, almost weekend, day in, day out, and here we are now talking about this. do you think that this may be a more, i don't know, contemplative move by people working within this industry to say, we need better rules here, we need two-man shifts, we need opportunities to be able to take a nap, so to speak, before we come back to this arduous work. >> these issues have been around for a very long time. people probably remember the pat co strike back in 1982, and these were some of the same issues. sleepin...

Andy bab bibabbitt also began a nationwide tour today to meet with eric traffic controllers. >> the whole system doesn't need to change. there's 15,000 controllers. seven have been -- were caught sleeping, seven have been suspended. there are seven investigations going on, but in looking at the workplace, we decided we needed to make these changes, but there's 15,000 controllers who go to work every day controlling planes in and out of airports very safely. >> that was ray lahood speaking with contessa brewer. joining us now is former faa chief of staff michael goldfarm. talking with air-traff...

More stunning situations involving faa towers, sleeping controllers, you had the man in charge of it at all on this morning. >> that's right. the secretary of transportation ray lahood, and on our show he announced new work rules. they said they'd have a study, but then saturday morning another controller fell asleep in miami just after a lecture at the control tower about, you know, professionalism, not falling asleep on the job. so we can see how well that worked. they'll change the schedule, but quite frankly i was surprised how little. they're going to make it instead of an eight-hour brea...

Back to back on the overnight shifts. the latest attempt to keep controllers from falling asleep on the job. here we go again. another air traffic controller asleep on the job. this time, during the midnight shift saturday at the miami route traffic control center. now the federal aviation association is making changes, long overdo. >> the fatigue we are seeing is a result of too few qualified controllers in the nation that can fill in. so they are working double shift, four and five nights in a row. >> the reports started coming in late last month when two passengers planes landed on their ow...

The controller slept. on thursday, the man who ran the faa's air traffic control operations, hank krakowski, lost his job. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, it he's the kind of behavior that we will not tolerate. >> reporter: the faa has since ordered at least two controllers in every tower that's open for business overnight. but for the flying public it's been three weeks of unsettling news about aviation safety. from the sleeping controllers to the 737 that landed with the hole in its roof, to the airbus a-380 that clipped and tossed aside a re...