Adrian Covert — Air traffic control horror stories are popping up left and right these days, but few stories have a description as vividly nerdy as the one found in Mother Jones' write up about the switchboard operators of the commercial flight world.
One day after Christmas, our computer system got gummed up with too many flights, as sometimes happens. It made it harder for me to track some of the 30 airplanes that I had on frequency-almost double what we'd handle on a heavy day 15
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