The Federal Aviation Administration suspended another air traffic controller because he was sleeping on the job. This has been their seventh person to be sleeping on the job. Most of the sleeping has occured in the midnight shifts. The head of the FAA Air Traffic Organization, Hank Krakowski, resigned because of all the insodents with the air traffic controllers falling asleep this past year. They said they are taking steps to make sure this will stop.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/16/air.traffic.controller.asleep/index.html?hpt=Sbin
I think that this is a very serious situation. What if a plane ended up crashing into another plane on the runway? That would be over 800 people dead..if not more. We really need to think about how serious this is. Sleeping on a job in an office is totally different than sleeping on the job as an air traffic controller. I think we really need to inforce the no sleeping on the job rule, exspecially being an air traffic controller..for the safty of our families, friends, and ourselves.
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