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NTSB: Distracted Controllers Caused Near-Crash at San Diego Airport

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A private jet came within 100 feet of colliding with a Southwest Airlines plane on a San Diego runway in August 2023 after air traffic controllers in the tower became distracted, according to a final report issued Tuesday Sep. 30 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). (airguide.info) More...

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billgreen85042
Bill Green 7
Who in the heck tries to fix a printer while supervising active landing operations?
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meadbills
Ken Mead 3
They.
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chugheset
chugheset 1
He had to print a TPS report...
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ace1deuce
Greg Costeens 1
... and the cover letter to the TPS report. (He got the memo.)
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WhiteKnight77
WhiteKnight77 3
No mention, if warranted, of any sanctions against the two.
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craiglgood
Craig Good 2
Probably no need. That's a mistake neither of them will ever make again. Punishment is never productive, and what you want is a culture where mistakes can be shared and learned from.
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DiamondLaneDrew
Andrew Shady 5
Who wants mistakes at an airport?
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WhiteKnight77
WhiteKnight77 3
Any sanctions could include a refresher course in maintaining proper awareness while in the tower during landing operations, to a several day suspension without pay. It could even include firing if they continued to allow distractions to keep them from being aware of what is happening outside the tower windows. That does not mean for just that one infraction.
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DiamondLaneDrew
Andrew Shady 3
My wife is a MTS busdriver. Not only are there supervisors staked out stategically around town waiting for someone to do anything wrong, there are cameras. Someone (driver) recently got in trouble for posting a picture on Social media of an accident that is causing them to be STOPPED in traffic. However, she did get assulted and a bomb threat 1 week after the next and they brushed it off. While she was in her Union meeting for the bomb threat incident (that MTS did the basic bare minimum, with 0 haste- bomb squad shows up after another driver drove the bus to the next terminal) to bring up what the same incident in an Airport Terminal would have caused.

All That to say, NO ONE WANTS MISTAKES IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT. PUNISHMENT WORKS. FIRING WORKS. Millions of able bodied people are willing to pay attention duing their shift. 1 mistake is too much.
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TimDyck
Tim Dyck 2
Really? So you think that doing nothing sends the right message?
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StevenWestern
Steven Western 1
Computers save the day as humans fail to concentrate on the one task at hand.
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briansfreeman
Brian Freeman -4
We're just reaping what we sow. Decades, now, of failing to properly mold young people and prepare them for the real world all while allowing employees to dictate their own lackadaisical work ethics results in a myriad of poor performance incidents. Many, many more to come...
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Nooge
Nooge 13
We're just sowing what we cut and paste today all while allowing some with lackadaisical work ethic wasting our time with a myriad of duplication of posts . Many, many more cut and pastes to come.
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DiamondLaneDrew
Andrew Shady 4
DO you post this on every post? I get that it's applicable to most.
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TimDyck
Tim Dyck 3
Hmmm I think I read that message somewhere else…
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Bandrunner
Bandrunner 2
You don't need the comma after decades.
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ace1deuce
Greg Costeens 0
DIE hiring, rather than exclusively merit based, continues to erode safety and heighten risk
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