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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: jmx53 on April 07, 2011, 01:04:28 AM

Title: Sleeping controller at KTYS
Post by: jmx53 on April 07, 2011, 01:04:28 AM

Not as serious as the incident at DCA, but still...


Nationwide review by FAA after KDCA sleeping controller incident led to the discovery of another controller caught sleeping while on duty in the radar room of McGhee Tyson's control tower Feb. 19, leaving another controller in tower to handle radar and traffic control duties and assist seven aircraft in a five-hour period. All the aircraft landed safely .

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/apr/06/mcghee-tyson-traffic-controller-slept-job/

http://www.wate.com/story/14395596/air-traffic-controller-caught-sleeping-at-mcghee-tyson-airport

Title: Re: Sleeping controller at KTYS
Post by: glencar on April 07, 2011, 10:11:28 PM

Embarrassing...

Title: Re: Sleeping controller at KTYS
Post by: dave on April 13, 2011, 07:43:13 AM

Napping McGhee Tyson air-traffic controller arrested in 2010
Knoxville News Sentinel
By Matt Lakin The air-traffic controller accused of sleeping on duty at
McGhee Tyson Airport still has two months of probation to serve after a
2010 gun-waving fight with his live-in girlfriend at a Waffle House,
records show. Jonathan Keith Poindexter ...

<http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/apr/13/napping-worker-arrested-in-2010/>