Air Traffic Controller Quotes:

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

topic: Mom, Mother, Jobs, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

- Kurt Fuller

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Air, People, Traffic, Controllers, Air Traffic Controller

Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

- Jay Leno

topic: Jobs, Air, President, Controllers, Air Traffic Controller

I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will be deeply involved within every aspect of their government from helping them improve their agriculture, to train air traffic controllers, to train pilots for the F-16s they're buying. So we'll have a deep relationship.

- Joe Biden

source: "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

topic: Government, Air, Agreement, Controllers, Deep Relationship

Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Air, People, Emergencies, Controllers, Air Traffic Controller

There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course...

- Jim Marrs

topic: Morning, War, Exercise, Controllers, War Games