{"id":94691797,"date":"2011-04-07T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/faa-discovers-second-air-traffic-controller-asleep-on-the-job\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:31:00","slug":"faa-discovers-second-air-traffic-controller-asleep-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/faa-discovers-second-air-traffic-controller-asleep-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Discovers Second Air Traffic Controller Asleep on the Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>Asleep in the Control Room <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released details of a second occurrence of an air traffic controller sleeping on the job Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nDuring a congressional hearing, FAA Administrator, Randy Babbitt, released details regarding said incident occurring in Knoxville, Tennessee on February 19th.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe controller was found in the radar room asleep with cushions and a blanket.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nLuckily there was an airport tower controller capable of handling his responsibilities as well as sleeper&rsquo;s radar duties, handling seven flights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNo word was released regarding his termination.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDetails emerged one month after another incident of a controller falling asleep, while two jets tried to land without any help.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/07\/uk-usa-faa-controllers-idUSLNE73601020110407\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asleep in the Control Room The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released details of a second occurrence of an air traffic controller sleeping on the job Wednesday. During a congressional hearing, FAA Administrator, Randy Babbitt, released details regarding said incident occurring in Knoxville, Tennessee on February 19th. &nbsp; The controller was found in the radar room [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691797","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=94691797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}