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Official Blames Safety Flaws in U.S. Aviation System for Comair Crash

National News • August 15, 2007
A lead investigator of last summer's deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed "latent failures'' across the nation's aviation system. In an eight-page ...

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Subject: RE: Airliner runway crashes

Posted On: August 15, 2007, 3:45 pm CDT
Posted By: Not Infallible
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In regards to understaffed air control towers wouldn't the natural solution be simply to hire more controllers to man the the towers and to ensure that there be less risk of overworking the current staff?


This solution just seems to be too obvious? How difficult is it to train personnel? Is there funding issue involving the federal government?

Argie's example seems to be one where the pilot is at fault. But not every time is an accident exclusively the fault of the pilot.

If the staffs at airports are overworked why don't they simply hire more people? What's the holdup?
Subject Posted By Posted On
RE: Airliner runway crashes Argie
Aug 23, 2007, 10:21 am
RE: RE: Airliner runway crashes Pilot Error?
Aug 15, 2007, 5:12 pm
RE: Airliner runway crashes Not Infallible
Aug 15, 2007, 3:45 pm
Airliner runway crashes Argie
Aug 15, 2007, 2:44 pm
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