{"id":94691755,"date":"2011-04-19T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-traffic-controller-suspended-but-not-for-falling-asleep\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","slug":"air-traffic-controller-suspended-but-not-for-falling-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-traffic-controller-suspended-but-not-for-falling-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Traffic Controller Suspended (But Not for Falling Asleep)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>An Air Traffic Controller at Attention <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nAnother air traffic controller was suspended from his position but it wasn&rsquo;t for falling asleep for a change, he was up but taking in a movie on his portable DVD player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe incident occurred a little after midnight on Sunday at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Oberlin, Ohio.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nHe was caught doing something other than his job because pilots noticed the movie audio through the radio according to the FAA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe controller&rsquo;s mic was on transmitting the movie&rsquo;s sound for over three minutes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nA military pilot reported the occurrence to the proper authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/story\/2011\/04\/Air-traffic-controller-suspended-for-watching-a-DVD-on-duty\/46258786\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Traffic Controller at Attention Another air traffic controller was suspended from his position but it wasn&rsquo;t for falling asleep for a change, he was up but taking in a movie on his portable DVD player. The incident occurred a little after midnight on Sunday at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-trending-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97170013,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691755\/revisions\/97170013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}