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Article: FAA admits controllers wrongfully blamed pilots; Will reform supervision procedure of air traffic.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2008
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Byline: Tom Ramstack, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday admitted that air-traffic controllers in Dallas intentionally blamed their own mistakes on pilots - the latest round of revelations about safety lapses at the embattled agency.
FAA officials said they are changing the way they supervise air-traffic controllers nationwide as a result of the improper error reporting at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
"Most of them were on the minor side, but not all of them," Hank Krakowski, the FAA's chief operating officer for air traffic, said of the reporting errors.
The errors most often consisted of ...