It’s not unusual for planes to enter holding patterns before they land at their destination. However, you’d typically hope that it’s not for this reason…
Continue reading: Air Traffic Controller Falls Asleep, Leaving Air Corsica Plane Circling
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I mean we’re all human, yes. But aviation personnel should be held to a higher standard. And if you’re so tired you fall asleep, I would expect you to speak up and say you’re too tired to vector speeding metal tubes full of people through the skies.
Obligatory Airplane! Joke: https://youtu.be/l2iIq3zaP6k?si=6hGB0RyAxSbUovYi&t=150
That's just what they'll be expecting us to do!
Maybe the AT Controller turned the runway lights off as it making it harder for they to go to sleep
A better story would be a look into understaffed facilities. Everyone gets it that here in the U.S. the FAA has a critical understaffing issue that they can’t dig their way out of. What most don’t realize is that at non-peak hours, terminal facilities can be ridiculously short-staffed, as in one person on combined positions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision
Wasn’t this collision that killed everyone on both planes a result, in part, of a sleeping air traffic controller?
The French are sloppy, messy, dirty, and lazy. Underdeveloped brains from eating all those carbs if you ask me, afaik.
I believe most small airports don't leave the lights on. They are either turned on by pilots through the radio or tower operator if there is a tower, and then automatically turn off after 10-15 min or so.
I was on a red eye flight in 2019 on Qatar from DOH to Chiang Mai when the captain came online and said we'd be in holding pattern because the airport wasn't opened yet. Airport opens at 6a and we were a bit early, ready to land around 5:40a.
Can’t believe an air traffic controller fell asleep… that’s super scary
Glad everyone’s safe, but this could’ve ended really badly. Serious changes needed
Do you usually leave the lights on when you sleep? I usually can't sleep well if it's not pitch dark.
Well they are the slimmest among western countries by all measures despite the carbs, so they still win overall. Peace.
Probably the air traffic controller was under-worked (not over-worked) and fell asleep out of being bored.
these idiots are going on strike all the time and call the shots, flights are cancelled 2-3 times a year in France
I hope this guy will be fired