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Global Aviation News Article
August 29, 2006
CNN: "FAA: Tower staffing during plane
crash violated rules"
The
Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday acknowledged
that only one controller was in the tower, in violation of
FAA policy, when a Comair jet crashed Sunday while trying
to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Kentucky.
Forty-nine
of 50 people aboard were killed.
The acknowledgment
came after CNN obtained a November 2005 FAA memorandum
spelling out staffing levels at the airport. The memo says two controllers
are needed to perform two jobs -- monitoring air traffic
on radar and performing other tower functions, such as
communicating with taxiing aircraft.
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