On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:30:11 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote in
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You know the old maxim as well as I do:

Pilot screws up, pilot gets killed.

Controller screws up, pilot gets killed.


In light of the Administrator's determination to implement user fees
for ATC services, wouldn't now be the time to make the consequences
for ATC errors commensurate with the consequences to those aboard the
flights subject to those errors?

It's one thing for the FAA to insulate ATC personnel from litigation
and responsibility for their errors, and it's quite another thing for
a NonGovernmental Organization's personnel to escape accountability
for the errors they may commit.

It seems to me, that the most equitable policy would be for individual
ATC personnel responsible for operational errors to have the added
personnel responsibility to make monetary restitution to the estates
and survivors subjected errors they committed.