United near miss at Houston

[queeno]

Truth. Both you and Queeno. That's the problem. Attempting to work to create a just safety culture with punitive behaviors rolling around in the back of your head is nearly impossible. Every single time you take the smallest step forward there is a calculation for what the impact is going to be when the political climate changes and they're back to focusing all their time and attention on the thread count of a controller's pants (I wish I was kidding).

That audio that floated around a few years back from the management convention when they were briefing the IWR's...that was Hank telling the managers to fire air traffic controllers if they showed up to work in a shirt without a collar, was it not? Yeah, that culture doesn't change overnight...

You know what is real telling, that after the IWR in 2006 all the Rehired PATCO guys that I worked with at C90 told us that the way we were treated and the attitude of management was worse that it was when they went on strike in 1981. I would also tell every nubee that hired at C90 to remember who it was that cut your pay 30% even thought the FFA tried to get us to throw them under the bus on the C scale................but as a work force we did the right thing for all by saying NO !!!!!!

 

[CaptBill]

Yes. Both aircraft were Airbus, wouldn't have happened in a Boeing!

Exactly, because we Boeing Boys never do what we're told.
"He said turn left did he? I'm turning right and will just say he was unreadable"

 

[Boris Badenov]

I want an Alert 5, scramble mentality out of you mister. Anything less, is subpar.

"Godzilla demands his meal in 30 minutes or less!"

OR

"The strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras..."