Kid in charge of air traffic

[No1newts]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100303/ap_on_re_us/us_child_air_traffic

Personally I find it quite funny and dont see the harm as he probably has the kid on his lap and is just getting him to say things, hardly as if tyhe child is landing the planes

Pilots seem to take it in good humour too but I can see this getting blown way out of all proportion and people get sacked etc for it. I mean we must be sad because it is one of the lead items on the news, must be a slow day. The tapes are quite funny

Personally I hope the guy doesnt get the sack but im sure people will disagree and he probably will be sacked

 

[qqg3]

Just heard this was coming up on ITV news after the footy. Had me interested...

Seems irresponsible considering the role but meh.

 

[steve-h]

He's trusted to do important job...

I'm sure he didn't let his son do any thing of importance that could have been fatal...

 

[neodude]

From my experience of hearing American ATC that was probably the clearest and most understandable RT transmitted on the frequency for a long time

 

[Tummy]

Where they his kids ? or random kids?

 

[Doohickey]

To be fair, the kid sounded like he knew what he was doing

 

[GreatAuk]

Shame the guy will probably get sacked, but really it doesn't seem that bad as long as he is the one telling them what to do... must have been fun for the kid though!

 

[Westyfield2]

Kid in charge of air traffic

Proof?

The video I heard was of a child's voice saying the commands to the planes, but there was no proof (and I highly doubt!) that he was the one making the decisions.

 

[Cosimo]

Where they his kids ? or random kids?

Can't you read:

The first night, the controller brought his young son to work and let him squawk a few routine messages over the radio to pilots waiting to take off.

The FAA says the controller brought a different child the next evening.

 

[Cosimo]

Double post.

 

[Tummy]

I can now read that twice

 

[RandomTom]

The article isn't accurate, but it was an easy mistake to make, the kid was Scuzi!

 

[Marky]

Ahh that's cute
Blown way out of proportion as usual - the kid was almost definitely sitting on his dads lap and he could have taken over at any point.

I wonder waht Scuzi thinks about this

 

[Greenlizard0]

Scuzi was the kid on his lap.

Edit - bah.

 

[Chronictank]

I don't see the harm of it really, however i think the main issue taken was the kid being in the air traffic control room at all?
Even BA stop you bringing friends/family to work nowadays

 

[neodude]

If it had happened over here they would've been sacked on the spot. Not even trainees with a licence are allowed to speak on the RT until they pass a sector famil course and simulator training (sometimes of up to 100 hours) (At least at my unit). It's just highly unprofessional imho.

 

[Rroff]

Normally I'd say highly irresponsible, but it sounds like he was under close supervision in a very deliberately paced set of scenarios with plenty of room for error, not like he was directing an emergency stack or something like that where decisions had to be made on the fly.

 

[TheVoice]

It never ceases to amaze me how utterly awful American news reporting is.

 

[RobH]

I don't know if anyone remembers the Aeroflot Flight 593 incident in 1994 but the pilot let his 15 year old son take control of the plane, it resulted in the plane crashing with all 75 passengers and crew dead.

 

[Marky]

I don't know if anyone remembers the Aeroflot Flight 593 incident in 1994 but the pilot let his 15 year old son take control of the plane, it resulted in the plane crashing with all 75 passengers and crew dead.

That kid had to pilot a plane
This kid had to repeat what his dad said

Stupid comparison ¬_¬'