Radio outages hit Nassau buses, jail

Newsday Article

The radio system that MTA bus drivers and their supervisors use to communicate suffered intermittent outages Wednesday afternoon, the bus agency said.

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The radio woes also affected the Nassau County jail in East Meadow, but a jail source said that correctional officers used handheld radios and that jailhouse security was not affected.

A county police spokesman said the department's radios were not affected.

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AS PART OF THE ONGOING HAZCOLLECT TESTING...A NATIONAL
TEST MESSAGE WILL BE SENT ON TUESDAY MARCH 9 AT ABOUT
1915 UTC/UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME/ OR 215 PM EASTERN
STANDARD TIME TO TEST DISTRIBUTION OF EMERGENCY MESSAGES
OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. THE NATIONAL TEST MESSAGE WILL
BE DISSEMINATED AS A SERIES OF STATE MESSAGES UNDER THE
FOLLOWING WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION /WMO/ AND
ADVANCED WEATHER INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM /AWIPS/
COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS:

WOUS41 KALY ALBADRNY FOR THE STATE OF NEW YORK

WOUS41 KPHI PHLADRNJ FOR THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

WOUS41 KBOX BOSADRCT FOR THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

THE ADR ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE/FOLLOW UP TEST MESSAGES
MAY BE RELAYED BY EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM /EAS/
PARTICIPATING STATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH LOCAL AND STATE
EAS PLANS.

Child Directed Traffic at N.Y.'s JFK Airport, Air Traffic Controller Suspended

From FOXNEWS

An air traffic controller at New York's Kennedy Airport was suspended for allowing his young son to radio instructions to several pilots.

The few quick exchanges between the elementary-school- aged child and jets waiting to take off from JFK, one of the nation's busiest airports, appeared to delight pilots at the time.

"I wish I could bring my kid to work," one said, wistfully.

But the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the controller and a supervisor Wednesday after recordings of the calls were posted on the Internet, then reported on by a Boston television station.

"This lapse in judgment not only violated FAA's own policies, but common sense standards for professional conduct. These kinds of distractions are totally unacceptable," FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement. "This kind of behavior does not reflect the true caliber of our work force."

On the recording, which lasts about a minute, the boy appears to repeat instructions fed to him by his father. At no time does the child tell aircraft how to maneuver or where they should go.


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