The Nation - News from March 12, 1987

Altered work records affecting 446 fired Chicago-area air traffic controllers were innocent mistakes, Federal Aviation Administration officials told a House panel. Robert Miller, assistant manager of the Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center, acknowledged that the work records erroneously were changed to show vacationing air traffic controllers as absent without leave during a 1981 strike. “In hindsight, it is readily apparent that mistakes were made,” Miller said in testimony before the Public Works and Transportation oversight subcommittee.