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\u201cThe science around the dangers of fatigue is clear,\u201d\nHomendy said. \u201cThe safety of our skies depends on air traffic controllers who\nare well-trained and well-rested. This move by the FAA to give overworked and\noverscheduled air traffic controllers proper rest between shifts is the right\nthing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National Transportation Safety Board has long been\nconcerned about the effects of fatigue on air traffic controllers\u2019 performance.\nThis concern was again raised in connection with the Aug. 27, 2006, accident\ninvolving Comair flight 5191that crashed during takeoff from the wrong runway\nin Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49. The investigation revealed that that the\nair traffic controller who cleared the accident airplane for takeoff had worked\na shift from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the day before the accident, then returned\nnine hours later to work the accident shift from 11:30 p.m. until the time of\nthe accident at 6:07 a.m. the next morning. The controller stated that his only\nsleep in the 24 hours before the accident was a two-hour nap the previous\nafternoon between these two shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NTSB also investigated a March 23, 2011, incident at\nRonald Reagan Washington National Airport when an air traffic controller fell\nasleep on the job. Investigators found the probable cause to be \u201cthe tower\ncontroller’s loss of consciousness induced by lack of sleep, fatigue resulting\nfrom working successive midnight shifts, and air traffic control scheduling\npractices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have been calling for action on controller fatigue for\nmore than 18 years,\u201d Homendy said. \u201cI am pleased to see today\u2019s action by\nAdministrator Whitaker, although much more work remains to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy praised FAA\u2019s move Friday to require air traffic controllers to receive at least 10 hours off between shifts and 12 hours off before a midnight shift. \u201cThe science around the dangers of fatigue is clear,\u201d Homendy said. \u201cThe safety of our skies depends on air traffic controllers who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28431,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions\/28431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}