Child's play at JFK triggers investigation
Air traffic controllers suspended after boy clears planes for takeoff
By Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
Price increases and flight delays caused by repair work at New York's John F. Kennedy airport may be the least of your worries as U.S. investigators confirm a child directed air traffic from a runway tower last month.
Recordings from Feb. 17 -- when local children were on a week-long school break -- reveal the voice of a boy making five transmissions to passenger-carrying jetliners.
"JetBlue 171. Cleared for takeoff," says the boy in one.
The pilots in all the exchanges respond according to procedure, but laugh and joke.
"That's what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school," says an adult presumed to be the boy's father. The JetBlue pilot responds by saying: "I wish I could bring my kid to work."
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The other flight the boy directed involved an exchange with Aeromexico flight 403, to whose crew he concluded with the words: "Adios, amigos."
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