President Obama gave lectures of air traffic controllers in an exclusive interview with ABC News, impress on them the enormous responsibility to safeguard the passenger flights and saying, "you do your job better."
President after several controllers were caught asleep on employment and the man in charge of control of air traffic, Hank Krakowski, resigned Thursday.
"People who are asleep at work, which is unacceptable," the President told ABC News George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on Thursday. "The fact is, when you are responsible for the lives and safety of people up in the air, better do you your work.". Thus, it is an element of individual responsibility which must be dealt with. ?
Five controllers were suspended for the NAP apparently job, while planes trying to land at their airports.
The President said that a comprehensive review of air traffic control shift is underway.
"What we must also look to East of air traffic, control systems." Do we have enough back up? Do we have enough people? They receive enough time rest? "Obama said.
He added, however, "but it starts with individual responsibility."
In March, two commercial aircraft have been forced to the ground without aid at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. after a controller is apparently asleep.
A few days later, two controllers at the Airport International of Preston Smith Lubbock, Texas, has been main step commands of an aircraft to the departure of another control centre, and it took repeated attempts for them to be achieved.
February 19, a Knoxville, Tennessee air traffic controller, slept for a shift on the day the day. Sources told ABC News that the worker has same pillows and cushions of a Chamber of break to build a bed of make-shift to control room floor.
And this month, there were two incidents more. A controller fell asleep on the job in Seattle, and days later, a controller in Reno was asleep when a plane carrying passengers seriously ill sought permission to land.
FAA and controller union studied the issue of fatigue for over a year and their report concluded that "acute fatigue occurs on a daily basis", and "fatigue may occur at any time, on any changes".
Some experts said sleep controllers are ready for la fatigue because they often bounce between day and night shifts. "When we will constantly to adapt to different work schedules, our body always playing catch up,", said Philip Gehrman, Director of the behavioral sleep at the University of Pennsylvania program.
The controllers on the night shift were another obstacle: they often work under conditions of light dim with stimulation little between calls radio. "this is exactly the kind of task type which is more difficult to maintain."", when you are so evil to you the biological rhythms," said Gehrman.
A recommendation of the Government study suggests allowing controllers to take regular NAPs, with pauses as long as two and a half to enable sleep and awakening.
Sleep experts said a long break in a time of eight night shift would contribute to, but it might be difficult to accept politically. It took decades to try to find new rules of fatigue for pilots, and it cannot be easier when it comes to controllers.
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