Comments on: FAA and Air Traffic Controllers at JFK

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:13:27 +0000

This may surprise you, Raunell, but your best bet may be to contact the FAA instead of some random person with a blog on the internet.

Just a hunch.

By: Raunell Liriano

Raunell Liriano — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:03 +0000

Hi!! my name is Raunell Liriano im a 22 years old I live in Florida, im very interesting on the job offer to become an air-traffic controller in New York, i found the article on the New york post. please if you can send me all the information about the offer, and if i need to move to New York I will.

By: EJ

EJ — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:10:48 +0000

Ah, I must have missed the part where the controller looked out the window.

I figured what the FAA guy was saying was crap, he then continued to “hint” that maybe the controller was saying this because of some labor dispute. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, it’s pretty low to say that a group of professionals (who have thousands upon thousands of lives in their hands) would stoop so low as to use these people as pawns.

Thanks for commenting.

By: RetiredATC

RetiredATC — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:45:04 +0000

99% of what comes out of the FAA spokesmodel’s mouth is pure BS. Controllers don’t call a loss of seperation if there isn’t one. What used to be an investigation to enhance safety has become a way to discipline controllers for being human. As you can see by my “name”, I’m retired. I left the day I was eligible. There are fewer controllers and more airplanes.
Your computer glitch theory doesn’t hold water, as the controller used his eyes, looking out the window, to avert disaster.