By Selwyn Duke

By now we’ve all heard
about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes
at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes, that’s “kids” — plural. It
is now being reported
that after the controller, identified as 49-year-old Glenn Duffy, let
his 8 or 9-year old son take the reins, he followed suit with his
daughter the next day.

Duffy and his supervisor have been
suspended pending a review of the incidents, but some would go even
further. For example, ABC reports that aviation attorney Mary Schiavo
said, “Given the child was involved with actual air traffic was a
fireable offense … not only a cavalier attitude but a shirking of his
responsibilities.” Retired air traffic controller Bob Richards echoed
the latter part of that comment, calling Duffy’s decision “bad
judgment.” Yet, what concerns me more than the incidents themselves is
the judgment of most citizen respondents.

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