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Safety Still Depends on Air
Traffic Controllers Working Crazy Shifts
WASHINGTON — Air
Traffic Controllers are
Still Working schedules k**wn as "rattlers" that make it likely for them to get little or ** sleep before overnight shifts, more than three years after a ****** of incidents involving
Controllers sleeping on the job, according to a government report released Friday.
A report by the
National Research Council expressed concern about the effectiveness of the Federal Aviation Administration's program to prevent its 15,000
Controllers from suffering fatigue on the job, a program that has been hit with budget cuts. The 12-member committee of academic and industry experts who wrote the report at the behest of Congress said
FAA officials refused to allow them to review results of prior research the agency conducted with NASA examining how work schedules affect controller performance.
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