04/21/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"In 2006, a former FAA Administrator informed me that Newark Liberty air traffic control needed at least 35 controllers to move traffic safely."
"Newark Liberty is a complex airport due to high volume of flights, congestion, New York-New Jersey airspace, constrained runways."
"But the very obvious glitches that are in here, when you look at, now, six incidents in which air traffic controllers and supervisors were caught sleeping on the job, forcing pilots to land planes wit..."
"There ought to be a formula established that says, OK. You want to cut the funds that go into the FAA, OK, then here's how many controllers we have."