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Las Vegas airport controller heard slurring her words as alarmed pilots respond
LAS VEGAS -- Federal and airport authorities are investigating why an air traffic controller became incapacitated and went silent while working a night shift alone in the tower at busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports that in air traffic audio of the incident, the controller appeared to become incoherent and eventually unresponsive until she was discovered by another controller returning from a break. (www.cbsnews.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Slurring, transposing alphanumerics, choking...sounds like a stroke to me. Wondering why she was alone in such a busy airport?
If she had had a stroke she would be on sick leave not administrative leave and by the sound of it the cause may have been over self-medicating a prescription drug. Grounds for immediate dismissal.
In all honesty, if you had a stroke, you wouldn't be in any mental capacity to be able to return and handle traffic at one of the busiest Class B airports in the country. Strokes are that debilitating that it would be grounds for dismissal from such a position.
Dismissal seams pretty severe for an accidental medical condition, imo. Reassignment or medical retirement (if qualified) sounds much more appropriate.
Unless, it was as Tony F said.
Zanax is my medically educated guess.
It is spelled Xanax. And you are probably wrong about your medically educated guess, too.
Doubt it, but we'll see down the road.