What Goes Around Sometimes Comes Way Too Close

Up here in the lookout tower above the house, I get a good view of light planes taking off and landing at Corvallis Municipal Airport, and the larger planes flying commercial routes between Portland and other coastal cities (in spite of the surprising number of flights between PDX and southern California which go through Salt Lake City).

[I also occasionally see dirigibles, PBYs, flying saucers and the Red Baron, but that's another issue entirely.]

Today, though, I'm looking at those aircraft with a little more leeriness, and the lookout seems like less of a sanctuary.

Air traffic controllers at Dallas-Fort Worth have been found to be systematically concealing near misses between aircraft under their control. The FAA at first denied that there was any problem, then admitted there was one, but said it was limited to DFW. This also proved to be untrue.

So: air traffic controllers have a culture of irresponsibility and connivance in concealment. Why should we be surprised? This is the brotherhood of air traffic controllers which was formed by Ronald Reagan's scabs.

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "This actually makes more sense than blaming Clinton."\\