Union: Inexperience in tower leads to accidents

The key to this problem is they need to take more land and not pay for it. Can't they see the obvious?

The is the union making a big deal out of something that is rarely reported to bolster their cause.
Like most unions the cause is higher pay for mediocre work ethics.

Next they will say vote Nobama cause he`ll fix it.

Murphy wrote:

The key to this problem is they need to take more land and not pay for it. Can't they see the obvious?

Your statement has absolutely nothing to do with the topic discussed in the news story.

Even if you constantly try to nail home the excuse of inexperienced trainees, there is no excuse (in this case) to not seeing 2 planes on one runway. I could go to the tower and be able to see that although, without training, I certainly would not know what to do next. I can imagine that it is a stressful and tough job but I don't think not paying attention should add to it. Also, how about dropping what happened 27 years as being associated with what happens today. You can't change the situation in 27 years?

LVIA has a grand-total of what, TWO runways?

If not at a little airstrip like this, where WOULD a trainee go to gain experience?

Is the union saying that there should be nothing but seasoned veterans -- even at a puny airport like LVIA?

vote for Ron Reagan....He knows how to settle that issue. He has experience..He was president of the screen actors guild...

isn.t the union in there--------probably on another break-----almost causing an accident, will most likely cause a strike for higher pay and more benefits

Ray Charles and Blind Melon Chitlin could do a better job then these union dorks.

HELLO has anyone looked at the traffic that comes in to ABE like it is really busy get your heads out of the sand.That near miss should never have happened they are OVERPAID AND UNDERWORKED!!I would like to have their paycheck I would do it for 10.00 an hr

All American City wrote:

HELLO has anyone looked at the traffic that comes in to ABE like it is really busy get your heads out of the sand.That near miss should never have happened they are OVERPAID AND UNDERWORKED!!I would like to have their paycheck I would do it for 10.00 an hr

Sigh, Ok so you have a job that pays less then $10.00 per hour, thats ok but please dont try and chime in on an issue you are oblivious to. Errors often happen at slow times because controllers are human and they are coming off a busy period which demands focus. This is common in all aspects of life. Its not about the union, its not about the FAA, its about SAFETY. More money for controllers is NOT the issue. Its about treating employees decently and I am intentionally not using the word R.....t because its overused. If you knew how much the work-force had to offer and is rebuffed youd be appalled. SAFETY,SAFETY....SAFETY is what we want.

This is great investigative reporting by a journalist whose work I always look for in the paper. Makes me appreciate having a local newspaper that will follow up on stories like this. I remember when Reagan broke the air traffic controllers' strike and have watched the problems mount over the years. Kudos to the Morning Call for telling it like it is!

Read the title once more! UNIONS ARE WORTHLESS!

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Failed FAA Pilot Bobby Sturgell Racks Up His 3,000th Civilian Kill, And Somehow Keeps Flying

To this day, our federal government in the United States has continued to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), for good reason otherwise known as the Tombstone Agency, to be run by a morally-bereft incompetent liar and perjurer by the name of Robert Allan [Bobby] Sturgell. You already know Bobby Sturgell. He self-touts his Top Gun status while seemingly unable to cite any bona fide combat experience. He professes his married status while somehow unable to wear a wedding ring while on business trips. He feigns public official status while borne of a DelMarVa shoot-’em-up biker bar until recently owned by Bobby’s FBI Mom who served as J. Edgar Hoover’s secretary. Bobby Sturgell is the imposter known as FAA –Acting- Administrator.

How apt.

A few months ago, Bobby Sturgell racked up his 3,000th civilian aviation kill. That makes for a lot of notches on his Top Gun wing.

In but one (1) short year in office as bumbling Acting Administrator of the FAA, Bobby Sturgell has finished the job, and he has murdered aviation safety. Yet the Bobby Sturgell homicide-of-decency commenced at least 5 years ago when Bobby Sturgell joined the FAA back in 2003.

The period of time from 2003 forward, to the date within the next few weeks that Bobby Sturgell ejects from his corner office at 800 Independence, shall be forever known as:

The Bobby Sturgell Tombstone FAA Regime, 2003-2008.

United States aviation fatality statistics are public record, and are available on the Internet. They are the damning admission of NTSB and FAA. See:
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According to a Quiet Rockland count of the NTSB statistics of approximately one (1) week ago, since the year in which Bobby Sturgell joined the FAA, in 2003 – no less than Three Thousand, Three Hundred And Eighty-Three (3,383) human beings have died in aviation accidents and other aviation incidents in the United States. The body-count number has even increased since then.

These 3,383 tombstones are on the head of Bobby Sturgell. Naturally, Bobby Sturgell did not run every single one of these planes and corpses into the ground in aviation flame-out, even though the incompetence of Bobby Sturgell well could have. Rather, in this case, the Sturgellian offense is not mere negligence alone. The offense is willful on the part of Bobby Sturgell, and it is 5 years perpetuated and protracted. The fact is, that it is Bobby Sturgell himself, the Sturgell arrant recidivist pandering to aeromercantile interests to the exclusion of human safety, the Sturgell inhuman abuse of the ATC work-force, and the Sturgell continual and contemptuous lawless derision for the Culture of Safety that should otherwise govern American aviation, that are the primary causes of these 3,383 dead bodies.

In reply, Bobby Sturgell will squirm, avoid, deny responsibility, blame the victim, and blame others – just like he always does out of his own cowardice. Yet today, we – Americans - hold Bobby Sturgell accountable. Today, WE count the bodies that Bobby Sturgell is afraid and unwilling to count.

The blood is on the ugly FAA airline-bought-and-paid-for hands of Bobby Sturgell. It is now confirmed. The failed Bobby Sturgell FAA regime is responsible for the loss of more human life than that which occurred at The World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001.