jeb@mtx5c.UUCP (Jim Beckman) (01/06/86)
<<>> One of the common public reationsctions to the number of fatalities experienced last year in airline travel is "Hire back some of those controllers!" It seems that the FAA training schools can't supply new controllers fast enough to meet the demand. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Those controllercontrollers who were fired have been off that job for at least four years now, right? If they've been slinging hash or pushing a hack or writing programs for those years, you surely won't just put them back into the Centers, right? So they have to go through the same trainignng schools, right? And the capacity is still too low, so therehere we aree again. Anyway, those guys made their choice back when, and if they feel like they got screwed, at least they know who did it. If the job was so terrible that they wanted to walk out back then, why would they want to go back now? Jim Beckman AT&T-ISL, Middletown, NJ mtx5e!jeb
cuda@ihuxf.UUCP (Mike Nelson) (01/08/86)
> <<>> > > One of the common public reationsctions to the number of fatalities > experienced last year in airline travel is "Hire back some of > those controllers!" It seems that the FAA training schools can't > supply new controllers fast enough to meet the demand. > > This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Those controllercontrollers > who were fired have been off that job for at least four years now, > right? If they've been slinging hash or pushing a hack or writing > programs for those years, you surely won't just put them back into > the Centers, right? So they have to go through the same trainignng > schools, right? And the capacity is still too low, so therehere we > aree again. > > Anyway, those guys made their choice back when, and if they feel > like they got screwed, at least they know who did it. If the job > was so terrible that they wanted to walk out back then, why > would they want to go back now? > > Jim Beckman AT&T-ISL, Middletown, NJ mtx5e!jeb It seems though that the majority of the accidents were caused by mechanical failures in the planes, not that airplanes were bashing each other. Does any one have a count of the causes of accidents based on mechanical failure, weather, controller error, or pilot error? Happy Hunting Mike Nelson ihuxf!cuda AT&T Bell Labs