FAA Resignation May Not Fix Flaws as Fatigue Still Seen as Risk

The U.S. air-traffic control chief’s resignation may be the first among many steps needed to fix an agency battered by reports of workers who were sleeping instead of guiding planes safely to their destination.

The Federal Aviation Administration must address decades-old concerns about controller fatigue by examining staffing, procedures and tiredness management programs, said Darryl Jenkins, chairman of the American Aviation Institute, a Washington group that does commercial-aviation research.