Controller Relieved of Duty by FAA After Planes Fly Too Close
An air traffic controller has been relieved of duty after a Boston-bound passenger jet he was guiding flew too close to a military jet, Federal Aviation Administration officials said Thursday.
The unidentified controller “will have to be recertified through academic and on-the-job retraining and under the close supervision of his supervisor before he can return to work,” FAA spokesman Michael Ciccarelli said.
In the incident Tuesday, Eastern Airlines Flight 380 from Washington flew within 500 feet vertically and three-quarters of a mile horizontally of a military cargo plane. The Eastern pilot veered sharply away from the other plane.
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