Air Traffic Controller Quotes

• Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

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  Jay Leno

  Jobs   Air   President  

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

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  Lisa Alther

  Funny   Mothers Day   Mom  

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

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  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air   People   Emergencies  

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• There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.

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  Jim Marrs

  Morning   War   Exercise  

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• I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

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  Kurt Fuller

  Air   People   Traffic  

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will be deeply involved within every aspect of their government from helping them improve their agriculture, to train air traffic controllers, to train pilots for the F-16s they're buying. So we'll have a deep relationship.

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  Joe Biden

  Government   Air   Agreement  

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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