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Article: Sleep Research Society Comment on Recent Tragedy of Comair Flight 5191
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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WESTCHESTER, Ill., Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National
Transportation Safety Board's announcement yesterday that the sole
air traffic controller on duty the morning of the crash of Comair
Flight 5191 was trying to function on only two hours of sleep in the
prior 24 hours and yet was within compliance with existing FAA work
hour regulations reveals the inadequacy of current FAA regulations.
This revelation should serve as a clarion call for the FAA to develop
new work hour policies that prohibit controllers who are impaired by
sleep loss or deprivation from directing air traffic at our nation's
airport.
"Acute sleep deprivation of this magnitude induces impairment that
is comparable to ...