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A third air traffic controller has been fired for sleeping on the job, even as some say naps should be allowed during working hours to enhance controller attentiveness.

The Federal Aviation Administration changed air traffic control work schedules Saturday, acknowledging it has a widespread problem with fatigue after another controller fell asleep on duty - this time in Miami....

The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say....

The head of the FAA's air traffic control unit resigned Thursday after a fifth controller was caught dozing while working the graveyard shift, officials said. "Hank Krakowski has submitted his resignation, and I have accepted it," said Randy Babbit, chief administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Federal Aviation Administration has uncovered another incident in which an air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, and the agency's chief told a congressional panel Wednesday the incident was "willful."

The F.A.A. on Thursday suspended the air traffic controller on duty when two passenger jets were forced to land without guidance from the control tower.

An investigation is underway after a child was heard giving instructions to a pilot from the air-traffic control tower at one of America's busiest airports.

Two minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at a New Jersey airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.