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NEW YORK — An air-traffic controller at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport has been suspended after he allowed two children to radio instructions to several pilots. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that the children did so over two days in mid-February.
The first night, the controller brought his young son to work and let him squawk a few routine messages over the radio to pilots waiting to take off. The FAA says the controller brought a different child the next evening.
The pilots were amused, but the FAA was not. It has placed the controller and a supervisor on administrative leave. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt called the episode a “lapse in judgment.”
The few quick exchanges were recorded and posted on the Internet.
