"Newps" wrote in message
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Nope. One guy in the tower. The FAA has already admitted that they broke
their own rules by having only one controller staffed when the policy
requires a minimum of two at all times, at all facilities. They will
probably hang the tower manager as a scapegoat.

Yeah, I saw that. It wasn't clear to me the policy violation had anything
to do with the accident though. As the news explained it, the policy was to
have a radar controller in addition to the tower controller. They also say
that the tower controller was distracted doing a "traffic count". AFAIK,
having a radar controller on duty wouldn't have affected that.

Or is a traffic count something that the radar controller would have done?

Pete