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UPDATE: Officials are now saying the controller fell asleep on the job.
EARLIER: This was all over the news today: how first an American Airlines plane, and then a United flight landed at D.C.’s Reagan National Airport without benefit of an air traffic controller. Nope, there was nobody home – or at least, nobody was answering the pilots when they checked in with the tower the other day.
Fortunately, there were no problems and both aircraft landed safely.
By the way, there was only one controller on the job. That’s right, just one. That controller has since been suspended while an investigation is underway.
Here’s my $.02: As a passenger, I would prefer that there be two folks in the cockpit as well as two folks in the tower every time I fly; if not, please let me know about this before I buy my airline ticket.
This is just another example of common sense being tossed out the window only to be uncovered in what could have been a potentially disastrous situation.
