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02-06-2011, 10:46 PM
Flight trackers 'dogging it' at key LI post (http:///p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO)
By BRAD HAMILTON
Last Updated: 11:33 AM, February 6, 2011
Posted: 12:34 AM, February 6, 2011
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF0e7MT C
It's a flier alarm.
The feds are investigating charges that New York air-traffic controllers endanger passengers by working just three hours per shift and acting like slackers -- chatting, texting and even watching movies when they should be monitoring planes, The Post has learned.
At times, so few are at their posts that a single controller must do the job of two or three and track 15 aircraft simultaneously, which is too many, according to allegations filed by a supervisor.
Evan Seeley, a frontline manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center in Ronkonkoma, LI, fired off complaints last month to the Federal Aviation Administration (http:///t/Federal_Aviation_Administration)and the Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency that probes whistleblower claims. The Post obtained copies.
CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW A COLLISION ALMOST OCCURRED (http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/02/06/news/photos_stories/bad_traffic.jpg)
Seeley raised his concerns on Jan. 17, three days before controllers allowed an American Airlines (http:///t/American_Airlines)jet to nearly collide with two military cargo planes over the Atlantic.
The Boeing (http:///t/Boeing)777 passenger plane came within 200 vertical feet and 2,000 lateral feet of the behemoth carriers -- a distance described as "dangerously close" by an airline-safety insider -- in an incident not revealed to the public until Friday, after The Post asked about it. The National Transportation Safety Board (http:///t/National_Transportation_Safety_Board)is investigating.
Sources familiar with the probe point to careless communication between controllers in giving instructions to the American fight, which was put on a crash course with the military planes. The error has been classified as a "Category A" error, the most serious type of near-miss.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF1P8Cb A
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF16O8Y S
By BRAD HAMILTON
Last Updated: 11:33 AM, February 6, 2011
Posted: 12:34 AM, February 6, 2011
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF0e7MT C
It's a flier alarm.
The feds are investigating charges that New York air-traffic controllers endanger passengers by working just three hours per shift and acting like slackers -- chatting, texting and even watching movies when they should be monitoring planes, The Post has learned.
At times, so few are at their posts that a single controller must do the job of two or three and track 15 aircraft simultaneously, which is too many, according to allegations filed by a supervisor.
Evan Seeley, a frontline manager at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center in Ronkonkoma, LI, fired off complaints last month to the Federal Aviation Administration (http:///t/Federal_Aviation_Administration)and the Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency that probes whistleblower claims. The Post obtained copies.
CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW A COLLISION ALMOST OCCURRED (http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/02/06/news/photos_stories/bad_traffic.jpg)
Seeley raised his concerns on Jan. 17, three days before controllers allowed an American Airlines (http:///t/American_Airlines)jet to nearly collide with two military cargo planes over the Atlantic.
The Boeing (http:///t/Boeing)777 passenger plane came within 200 vertical feet and 2,000 lateral feet of the behemoth carriers -- a distance described as "dangerously close" by an airline-safety insider -- in an incident not revealed to the public until Friday, after The Post asked about it. The National Transportation Safety Board (http:///t/National_Transportation_Safety_Board)is investigating.
Sources familiar with the probe point to careless communication between controllers in giving instructions to the American fight, which was put on a crash course with the military planes. The error has been classified as a "Category A" error, the most serious type of near-miss.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF1P8Cb A
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/out_of_control_JcDmSEex6KWFnRDCoGE7MO#ixzz1DF16O8Y S