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Old 31st Jul 2009, 19:55
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Three german ATCOs degraded to office work

Three german ATCOs were degraded to office work only. They were on night shift together, and two of them were sleeping while one was working. During that period a runway incursion happened, with one aircraft taking off from a taxiway that was blocked on the far end by another aircraft. So it was rather a taxiway incursion. Nothing happened, but all three controllers were degraded, because one who was sleeping was entered in the position log. All three of them will never work as ATCOs in Germany again.

In my opinion a very hard punishment for falsification of documents. What do you think?
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