JFK tower allowed kids to direct air traffic

[☭proletarian☭]

NEW YORK - An air traffic controller at one of the nation's busiest airport was suspended after his young son was permitted to give radio instructions to pilots. NBC News has learned the controller at Kennedy Airport brought his daughter into the tower the next night.....


On the recording, which lasts about a minute, the boy appears to repeat instructions fed to him by his father. At no time does the child tell aircraft how to maneuver or where they should go.

JFK tower allowed kids to direct air traffic - News- msnbc.com

Unwise, maybe.Isn't this overreacting, though?

 

[Oddball]

No big deal...We have someone with only-but-slightly more experience in his "trade" running the whole damned country.

 

[uptownlivin90]

Yeah... it's really not the big crisis that the media has been making this out to be. Not a smart decision, but had this not gone through the media nobody would have known and it's not like anyway got hurt, and I think if you have kids you can understand the father's reasoning and sympathize with him just a little.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Was that wrong? Should he not of done that?