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Date: 04-Mar-10 @ 12:19 AM -
air traffic controller children
you might have heard the story and soundbytes. a father took his son to work. he happens to be
an air traffic controller at JFK international airport in NYC and he happened to let his 8 year old
son instruct planes waiting for takeoff to takeoff. turns out that the next day he brought his
daughter, the twin sister, to work the following day and allowed her to do the same. now granted
he was there telling them what to say but 8 year olds were nonetheless instructing pilots of
planes from all over the world what to do many of whom don't speak english as a first language.
i've seen mixed views on this in the states. many people think it's cute and say ask why a father
shouldn't let his kids have this kind of experience and they state "nothing went wrong" but if
something had gone terribly wrong i believe those same people would have brought out their
torches and pitchforks and blamed the government for letting this happen. personally i think it
was a stupid thing this father did, showing a serious lack of judgement.
my question is what are other countries saying about this incident? i can imagine that other
countries are outraged and justifiably so. i'd love to hear though.