Reply #2: They might want to refer to the incident at the Bluegrass Airport [View All]

[Democrat 4 Ever]

in Lexington, KY a few weeks back. There are 49 people no longer with us and it looks like one of the reasons is there was only one air traffic controller on the job at the time (despite FAA regs that two are required so the backup can check instructions given by each other) and the one that was working was doing so on only two hours of sleep. The airport had recently done some changes in the runways and the pilot took off from a runway too short and unlit but the tower didn't catch these errors until after there was a horrible crash.

Somehow I don't think those families give a damn about how the government's cost cutting efforts.

Hearing this story makes me glad that I don't have to do a lot of air traveling. Wonder how many more airports are forced to run their personnel on a shoestring? We can have 50 people standing around to make grandma take her shoes off and dig through your luggage while everything going into the cargo hold slides by and people in the control tower are working on two hours of sleep. Only in Georgy's America.