This article is in response to the newly reported air-traffic errors by the FAA, which have risen at an exponential pace since 2007. According to the released data by the FAA, air traffic errors that allow planes to get too close together jumped 81% and errors that most likely cause a collision or an accident had a 26% increase. The FAA says that the higher number of reported errors involving airliners don’t pose a sudden increase in risk to fliers and insist that the numbers are a result of several years of effort to improve reporting.
For years the FAA has been accused of covering up errors. Three years ago, for example, an FAA investigation prompted by whistleblowers found that reports were routinely falsified at a Dallas facility. In response, the agency created a new “no-fault” system to report errors. The FAA continues to say that the growing number of errors reported are a sign its taking safety more seriously.
I thought that this article was pretty interesting, especially for anyone who flies. I fly every once in awhile and usually don’t even think about the plane colliding with another, let alone the percentage of it happening. This article made me wonder why the error rates are increasing so much and what is causing it?
I think that with so much radioactivity and radio waves that move around from phones and satellites it is not surprising that there are mistakes and interferences between the station and an aircraft. But as time moves forward I do not think that there is any excuse that FAA has not found a way to fix what is causing these problems.
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