Air Controller Discipline Probed by U.S. in Near Plane Crash
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A government safety investigation into a near mid-air collision in Mississippi is the latest to show disciplinary problems at a U.S. air-traffic facility.
A controller who instructed two planes to take off toward each other June 19 near Gulfport, Mississippi, had been repeatedly disciplined and was described by another controller as “unsafe,” the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released yesterday.