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Early Sunday morning, two air traffic officials were caught suspended. They were caught watching a movie on a portable DVD player. The worker was watching the movie while working the radar position. For more than three minutes the movie played across the radio frequency. The problem was brought to air traffic control's attention by the pilot of a military aircraft using an alternate frequency. This is leading to a nationwide tour by top FAA officials and union representatives, to discuss professionalism and safety at air traffic control centers.

I would not want to fly on an airline where people watch movies and sleep instead of doing there job. This stuff needs to be cracked down on.

Good, they should be suspended. You shouldn't be watching a movie while your at work. What if somebody that was dangerous snuck past and hurt somebody? They need to find two more serious officials, one's that will do their job right

The FAA`s plans to get new technology called NextGen. The nextgen will be a more accurate Gps based network. The current radar based technology is a half of century old. This new technology can prevent collisions in the air.

This will keep more passengers safe.

Libyans gather in Tripoli, Libya to mourn at the funeral for 13 people who were killed in the coalition air strike.

After almost 15 years the famous rock hard metal crashing loosers in high school now come back to fill a time in the slot of MTV.

I am really surprised to see this show coming back on air, although i do not find it to have any meaning, I would rather watch this than some of the other shows that are on MTV now.

That is awesome who doesn't like that show i don't know about anyone else though but i don't know how in the world that got back onto the air. I hope the creators made a lot of changes because if not it will be taken right back off the air ya know what i mean.

if two planes get close enough to hit each other there is something wrong with the air control station, someone was not performing there job well.

I do not understand how this happened. How could someone at the airport let the planes in the same area at the same time!

The people flying this plane are not to blame, the people in the control towers should be able to maintain control of these kind of things. I wouldn't be too happy about this because of somebody else being careless.

On Monday a third air traffic controller was fired for falling asleep on the job.

Helicopters are being used for air support in japan to douse the nuclear reactors to keep the cool so they do not meltdown.

I think that this is good. Japan is already in a horrible situation with the Tsunami and if they had a nuclear meltdown, it would just cause even more damage then what's going on now.

Hopefully they can put it out so that there is no nuclear pollution on top of all of the devastation.

The cockpit voice recorder from an Air France plane that crashed mysteriously nearly two years ago, killing all 228 people on board, has been found. This device will bring the investigation one step closer to knowing the cause.The discovery of the two data recorders may finally explain why the Airbus A330 dropped out of the sky and into the ocean. It took nearly two years to locate the bulk of the wreckage.

I actually came across this on AOL news the other day. Its amazing how big the ocean is and we are able to find such small pieces of history in the depths the dark water. It will be more interesting what they will find out in recent weeks.

That is amazing. I wonder what the voice recorder has on it.

Iodine-131 was found in Colorado and Oregon by a monitor in Colorado. The trace amounts of radiation found is about 100,000 times less than the natural radiation we receive from the sun, so it really is no threat.

Two more states Oregon and Colorado join radiation problems with other western states. These radiation problems have spread about 5,000 miles away from Japan.

i feel really bad for all of the states and the family's that lost someone or something. This earth Quake really bad and the radiation was even worsted. I just hope everyone is ok

A volcanic eruption began in Iceland. Early Tuesday the ash spread to Europe. This forced many British airlines to cancel many flights. This ash is predicted to spread over Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, according to Britain's weather agency, the Met Office. There is also a strong possibility it could affect Denmark. The ash can be a serious hazard to aircraft, reducing visibility, damaging flight controls and ultimately causing jet engines to fail. This volcano affected many airlines and traveling.

This was pretty scary hearing since after there was a prediction that the world was going to end Saturday.

this is great just what the world needs more backed up air flights.