Secretary of transportation Ray LaHood Tuesday said Federal officials should "keep back" on personal responsibility in the wake of the last request of inattention by the air traffic controller - was that this would have been watching a movie while on duty - and inaction by her supervisor.
The controller was suspended pending an investigation, to watch a movie on a portable electronic device while working at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Oberlin, Ohio. Also his first line manager, who was aware and did not prevent him, has been suspended, confirmed the LaHood.
The incident took place Sunday morning, when the audio in the Samuel l. Jackson thriller "Cleaner" was transmitted on a frequency radio for more than three minutes.
"The problem has been to the attention of the control of the movement of air by the pilot of a military aircraft with an alternate frequency," a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Policy of the FAA banned the use of laptops and other DVD players equipment to be used in radar rooms.
Stories of the wrecks controllers keep stack, even while the head of the FAA and the leader of the controllers Union began a cross-Canada tour to spread the Gospel of professionalism for the rank.
There was now incidents in Washington. Knoxville Tennessee. Reno (Nevada). Seattle; Lubbock (Texas). and Miami in only for a few months.
Ordering of the rules have been adjusted and staffing strengthened to mitigate fatigue between controllers, but during the incident of the Ohio, fatigue does not appear to have been the cause.
Personal responsibility "really need to become much more part of our training," LaHood told CNN, "much of what says our administrator (FAA) controllers as he travels the country and met with them.
"I meet controllers, too, when I travel to the country." "I visit the air traffic control towers and I guarantee that it will be part of my message."
Pressed to explain why such incidents keep comes despite the insistence of officials that the situation will not be tolerated, LaHood said: "Well, it will not."
"We have things here in the short term as an extension of time to rest from eight to nine hours." "We've moved positions where we believe that it is more important to have more supervisors, supervisors"
"And we will continue to do what we have to do to ensure that controllers to include that they take responsibility for this most important security task that they have", he said.
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