Federal Aviation Administration to cut more air traffic controllers
"TheNPC" wrote in message
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SNIP
There's no guarantee that he would have noticed the erroneous movement if
he hadn't been required to turn to other tasks because of the lack of the
second controller, but it's a pretty sure bet that once he turned from
that area of responsibility (control and monitoring of ground movement),
he wasn't going to notice anything happening on the runway. Thus, his
potential role to provide redundancy and prevent an accident was negated
by FAA's violation of its own staffing rules.
Looking at all the comments and chatter regarding the subject of the
Lexington crash this paragraph best hits the nail on the head. We will
never know the hypothetical out come because the FAA violated their own
staffing orders at Lexington that night. The hypothetical scenario of two
controllers on duty and the related safety matrix was made impossible by
the FAA's refusal to staff their ATCT IAW their own orders.
Following the order doesn't put another controller in the tower cab.
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