wrote:


Here is some inside information for the layman, you don't have to turn
your back on the runway to do traffic count. You read the numbers off
the counter in front of you and put them on a clipboard, again, in
front of you. He should have been watching his radar scope when Comair
was no longer on the runway, again in front of him. There is NO
reason to turn your back.


All traffic count is entered into the computer each hour. This computer
is at the supervisors desk. Which way does the desk face? At a radar
facility the only traffic count on the counter is the local ops, usually
touch and goes. All itinerant traffic is on a strip. These strips are
collected from where they were last used and brought back to the
computer for counting then bundled to be saved as they are legal
documents. Nobody uses a clipboard anymore, every facility that does
not have automated counting, which is every small and medium sized
facility, does it the same way and has for at least the last couple of
years.



First this.....

The pilot and first officer were given toxicology tests after the
crash but I have never heard of a controller being tested for drugs or
alcohol following and accident or incident.


Then this.....



I have been at this for close to 20 years now.



If you've been at this for six months you'd know how often controllers
get tested for some relatively minor incidents.









Who is going to stop this from happening again and again. We have been
ignored, attacked, and accused of having our own agenda by the
press, government officials, and family members of such tragedies as
TW800, Swissair111, Egyptair990, and ValuJet 592. Now one of the
Comair191 family members has asked me to remove him from my mailing
list.


Yeah, wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that you're nothing
more than a dope smoking loser.





The Congress won't let me testify because they can't have everyone
knowing the real story about aviation safety and the way they are
watching over the system. We will just have to hear about more
innocent people dying by the hundreds over and over again. I will be
wasting my time for decades to come.


Wasted, the word is wasted.