The Nation - News from May 4, 1986

A majority of air traffic controllers at the nation’s busiest airports consider themselves overworked, congressional investigators said. A General Accounting Office poll, conducted since the crash of Delta Flight 191 at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport last August, said more than half the controllers surveyed at airports in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Dallas said they were handling too much traffic in peak travel periods. The exception was Los Angeles International Airport, where only 20% said they were overloaded.