Union Says Sick Employee Forced To Stay On The Job
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association, an
organization representing more than 20,000 ATC operators across the
country, has accused an FAA supervisor at Gulfport Air Traffic
Control Tower in Gulfport, MS of ordering a sick controller to
report for work Thursday, even after the employee said he was
incapacitated.
"Do you have the traffic that's passing underneath you still?"
According to transcripts released by the FAA last week, this
fateful question from the Renton, WA Municipal Airport tower to the
pilot of a de Havilland DHC-2 was the precursor to an August 4
midair collision involving the floatplane and a Cessna 150.
It was a textbook event, one to make a flight instructor proud:
after a bouncing attempt to jar the right maingear of his King Air
100 (file photo of type, right) into place, a pilot initiated
a go-around at Atlanta's Fulton County-Charlie Brown airport
Thursday, before bringing the twin turboprop around for a
near-perfect belly landing.
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