US to modify the rules for air traffic controller

concerns increased after two aircraft were to arise without help in Washington because sleep controller The US aviation agency said it will change the traffic controllers working air scheduling, after several incidents in which controllers it is asleep on duty.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that he would do "everything we can to end this."

In Miami, another controller fell asleep on duty at a radar facility that handles high-altitude air traffic.

In the month, a number of aircraft landed safely at US airports without controller guide.

The head of the Agency control traffic in a US air, Hank Krakowski, who oversaw the daily operations of controllers of 15 000 to 400 airports, resigned Thursday.

"Real difference".

The FAA says that prohibit scheduling practices most likely to lead to a tired controllers, at the beginning of next week.

"Today we let important steps that will make a real difference in the fight against air traffic controller fatigue." But we know that we need to do more, FAA administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement.

The Agency also said that a controller had been suspended to a busy regional facility that handles traffic high altitude air Miami during scraping service Saturday morning.

On Wednesday, Mr. Babbitt announced that the FAA would impose an additional air traffic controller to the position of midnight to 27 control towers across the country. Previously, they had been filled with a single controller in this change in attitude.

The question accesses notoriety when two jets were forced to land at around midnight at the Reagan National, near Washington DC airport, without the help of the local control tower last month.

Pilots, carrying 165 persons on two planes, were unable to raise the tower radio controller, and a subsequent investigation revealed that it had inadvertently fell asleep during the shift.