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From: cuda@ihuxf.UUCP (Mike Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Re-hiring controllers
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 08:24:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 08:24:42 1986
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> <<>>
> 
> One of the common public reationsctions to the number of fatalities
> experienced last year in airline travel is "Hire back some of
> those controllers!"  It seems that the FAA training schools can't
> supply new controllers fast enough to meet the demand.
> 
> This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  Those controllercontrollers
> who were fired have been off that job for at least four years now,
> right?  If they've been slinging hash or pushing a hack or writing
> programs for those years, you surely won't just put them back into
> the Centers, right?  So they have to go through the same trainignng
> schools, right?  And the capacity is still too low, so therehere we
> aree again.
> 
> Anyway, those guys made their choice back when, and if they feel
> like they got screwed, at least they know who did it.  If the job
> was so terrible that they wanted to walk out back then, why
> would they want to go back now?
> 
> Jim Beckman    AT&T-ISL, Middletown, NJ    mtx5e!jeb


It seems though that the majority of the accidents were caused by
mechanical failures in the planes, not that airplanes were bashing 
each other.  Does any one have a count of the causes of accidents
based on mechanical failure, weather, controller error, or pilot
error?

Happy Hunting

				Mike Nelson
				ihuxf!cuda
				AT&T Bell Labs