FUBAR wrote:

Did you see the original post? The FAA order REQUIRES 2 controllers. I
have been in ATCT cabs hundreds of times. I have never seen ALL the
controllers with an aircraft active with their backs to the runway.

I've been in ATCT cabs hundreds of times and there have been time,
time when aircraft should have been departing, where none of the
several controllers were looking at the end of the runway. Why
would they. The cleared the aircraft to take off and expect him
to. I specifically recall a controller looking back at the runway
getting ready to clear the next plane to land and finding the
previous flight still parked there doing is god awful I'm too
stupid to set all my instruments, turn on the lights and transponder
and whatever in less than two minutes.

I stand by my opinion. IF? the FAA HAD FOLLOWED THEIR OWN ORDERS THAT
REQUIRED 2 controllers people would be alive today. Why write or publish
an official order if you are going to VIOLATE it???

Did it occur to you that the second controllers job isn't there to
provide redundancy to the first, but to handle additional responsibility
and provide coverage where one controller must leave the duty station
temporarily?