The NTSB has elevated air traffic controller and pilot professionalism to its list of top safety concerns in response to a series of incidents over the past several years, including a 2009 accident in which a controller in New Jersey was talking on the phone to a friend about barbecuing a dead cat when a small plane he had handled collided with an air tour helicopter, killing nine people.



Now that's professionalism right there.

Forgot to add OMGWTFBBQ to my last post

Wanted for questioning:

He's a menace to everything in the air.

Yes, birds too.

It's a good thing he doesn't know how much I hate his guts

NuttierThanEver: It's a good thing he doesn't know how much I hate his guts

He says it's a good thing you don't know how much he hates your guts.

FTFA: Beck, a controller for 23 years, also had been suspended several times within the last five years for tardiness, absenteeism and failure to report an arrest for driving under the influence. Beck also had been removed from duties training less experienced controllers after a trainee complained that "Mr. Beck was in the back of the room with his feet up and eyes closed" while conducting training sessions, the documents said.

My completely uninformed diagnosis based on very little information: alcohol-related frontal lobe dementia

/you're welcome

Crewmannumber6: CSB - I was looking out the window of a flight I was on about 12 years ago and a plane passed underneath us. I understand reference points and depth perception, but I could see the rivet heads on the wings.

/Keep 'em at 30 thousand
/no, feet

My dad used to own his own small plane, and says his sacriest moment as a pilot was when he and a few dozen other pilots were practicing take offs and landings at a feild with no tower. The Pilots had all agreed amonst themselves that one runway was for take offs the other for landings. As he coming in for a landing during one trip, about 15' of fthe deck, he looked down and wondered for a second why his plane's shadow had square wingtips when his plane had round ones. Then he got it, and pulled up HARD on the stick to abort the landing.

Seems a plane had joined the reindeer games but not bothered to learn the rules and was taking off on the runway he was trying to land on, and at the moment dad looked down the idiot happened to be exactly matching him for speed.

nrdgrl: FTFA: Beck, a controller for 23 years, also had been suspended several times within the last five years for tardiness, absenteeism and failure to report an arrest for driving under the influence. Beck also had been removed from duties training less experienced controllers after a trainee complained that "Mr. Beck was in the back of the room with his feet up and eyes closed" while conducting training sessions, the documents said.

My completely uninformed diagnosis based on very little information: alcohol-related frontal lobe dementia

/you're welcome

What Air Traffic Controller responsible may look like: