What it feels like to be an air traffic controller responsible for the safety of hundreds of people
News Source : National Post
News Summary
- Air traffic controllers are critical to keeping people and planes safe.
- Yet, at the end of the day, they are only human.
- Air Canada Flight 8646 slammed into the truck as it crossed LaGuardia Airport’s Runway 4 eight seconds after landing.
- The deadly incident, now the subject of a probe by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), has shone a light on the burden carried by air traffic controllers in this country and their mission to keep planes landing and taking off safely.
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