Calls for congressional probes of this issue or that issue have become far too routine, and way too political, but it's easy to support Sen. Dick Durbin's demand for a look at staffing levels and fatigue among air traffic controllers at O'Hare. A report from the Government Accountability Office earlier this month said O'Hare had the second-highest number of near collisions on its runways between 2001 and 2006. Controller fatigue is one potential reason That's just plain scary. There's enough to worry about when flying these days. We should be assured that we don't have to worry about overworked controllers guiding our planes.
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