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Article: Don't blame the understaffed air traffic controllers for delays.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2004
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Byline: Chuck Goudie
"We are not dealing with robots here; we are dealing with human beings. That is what we are screaming out for."
- Fired air traffic controller, 1981
"I've been screaming from the mountaintop that we have this growing, growing, growing serious problem and the symptoms have presented themselves."
- Air traffic controller, 2004
The two above quotes were screamed 23 years apart, by air traffic controllers from different generations. The two men were separated by a strike and a mass firing.
But the high-pitched quotes are indistinguishable, because the issues have not changed and the problems never ...