Ed Masterson denied there were problems with these procedures. On January 22nd, 2009 a federal administrative judge determined that Ed Masterson VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW - The Whistleblower Protection Act by retaliating against Ray Adams (me) for his disclosure of unsafe air traffic procedures at Newark Airport. This CNN story details just one of those problematic procedures. For his VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW - The Whistleblower Protection Act, Ed Masterson received a PROMOTION from the FAA. Let's go FAA, get with the program and remove Ed Masterson from the Federal Aviation Administration as is your authority under the law. Your own regulations indicate you should fire him. What's the holdup???
Newark runway risks concern feds:
(CNN) -- Federal investigators are concerned a potential danger persists because of the simultaneous use of intersecting runways at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the nation's busiest and a gateway to the New York metro area.
The alert comes after repeated instances in which planes above the Newark airport flew too close to each other in violation of safety standards. There were four such instances last year and at least four this year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general.
In one case, on January 16, 2008, two Continental planes -- a Boeing B-737 and an Embraer 145 -- missed each other by 600 feet, according to a DOT inspector general's report.
"That was very scary. I was there for that one personally in the control tower, and it scared the heck out of everybody up there," said Ray Adams, a Newark air traffic controller.
Potential danger arises when approaching planes need to abort their landings, which happens about every 700 flights at Newark, according to a Federal Aviation Administration analysis.
In what the FAA calls "go-arounds," the diverted plane approaching Newark has to make a sharp right turn through the flight path of planes landing and taking off from an intersecting runway, allowing little margin for error.
"There was a distinct possibility that we could have had a collision with these operations," Adams said.
READ THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/27/nj.runway.danger/index.html
(CNN) -- Federal investigators are concerned a potential danger persists because of the simultaneous use of intersecting runways at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the nation's busiest and a gateway to the New York metro area.
The alert comes after repeated instances in which planes above the Newark airport flew too close to each other in violation of safety standards. There were four such instances last year and at least four this year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general.
In one case, on January 16, 2008, two Continental planes -- a Boeing B-737 and an Embraer 145 -- missed each other by 600 feet, according to a DOT inspector general's report.
"That was very scary. I was there for that one personally in the control tower, and it scared the heck out of everybody up there," said Ray Adams, a Newark air traffic controller.
Potential danger arises when approaching planes need to abort their landings, which happens about every 700 flights at Newark, according to a Federal Aviation Administration analysis.
In what the FAA calls "go-arounds," the diverted plane approaching Newark has to make a sharp right turn through the flight path of planes landing and taking off from an intersecting runway, allowing little margin for error.
"There was a distinct possibility that we could have had a collision with these operations," Adams said.
READ THE REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/27/nj.runway.danger/index.html
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