Originally Posted by miker1369

Its always a chain of events, like you said the rest period will come into play, the controller staffing levels (only one up in the Tower/Tracon)most smaller facilities run the TRACON out of the cab now until the second person comes in, and the controllers being tired from 6 day work weeks with few and little breaks, the way Comair and the FAA has been treating there employees, the FAA cutting the budget and safety as much as they can over the last year (after all the FAA is known as the Tombstone agency, they don't fix things until they have too), the construction issues at the airport. Youre right it is never as simple as "they screwed up", blame will be put all around. Hopefully the NTSB can set the FAA straight and make sure nothing like this happens again.