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[ice grillin you]

Tapes indicate child directed planes at NY airport

An air traffic controller at New York's Kennedy Airport is in hot water after he allowed his young son to radio instructions to several pilots.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it has placed the controller and a supervisor on administrative leave as it investigates. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt called the episode a "lapse in judgment."

The agency says it has also suspended all unofficial visits to FAA air traffic facilities while it reviews its policies.

The few quick exchanges between the elementary-school-aged child and jets waiting to take off from JFK became public after they were recorded and posted on the Internet. On the recordings, the child appears to be repeating simple instructions given by his father.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

NEW YORK (AP) — An air traffic controller at New York's Kennedy Airport is in hot water after he allowed his young son to radio instructions to several pilots.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it has placed the controller and a supervisor on administrative leave as it investigates. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt called the episode a "lapse in judgment."

The agency says it has also suspended all unofficial visits to FAA air traffic facilities while it reviews its policies.

The few quick exchanges between the elementary-school-aged child and jets waiting to take off from JFK became public after they were recorded and posted on the Internet. On the recordings, the child appears to be repeating simple instructions given by his father.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

Supposedly he only was on a channel with planes that were on the ground, and were not in an active taxi. Was it monumentally stupid? Yes. Really dangerous? Not so much.

[ice grillin you]

its mostly funny

[Sgt PSN]

i remember when i was 7 i flew by myself from philly to phoenix.  when i got on the plane in philly i went to the cockpit and got my little plastic wings and then the pilot actually let me make an announcement over the loudspeaker to let everyone know that we would be departing in about 10 minutes. 

back then people thought it was cute.  now, it's apparently criminal. 

[ice grillin you]

is that a thinly veiled 911 joke?!?!?!?

tread lightly sir

[paco]

i remember when i was 7 i flew by myself from philly to phoenix.  when i got on the plane in philly i went to the cockpit and got my little plastic wings and then the pilot actually let me make an announcement over the loudspeaker to let everyone know that we would be departing in about 10 minutes. 

back then people thought it was cute.  now, it's apparently criminal. 

This is true.  And when you do it now, its not cute any more.

[Sgt PSN]

yeah.  and i understand that times change and all that.  but seriously, if a little kid comes on the radio, you know it's a little kid.  so even if that kid radios down to a plane and tells the pilot to take off, the only way that ends in a tragedy is if the pilot is dumb enough to listen. 

when i was a kid i also got to raise and lower cars on the hydrolic lift in the service dept of my grandfather's car dealership too.  i can only imagine how nuts people would go today if they walked into a garage and saw a kid in there. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

It's not like the kid was randomly saying shtein into the radio. He was parroting what the adult controller (his father) was saying.

[JackStraw]

Die Hard traveling internationally?

[PhillyGirl]

6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Taiwan...CNN Breaking news.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Die Hard traveling internationally?

Nice!

[Yeti]

i went to the cockpit and got my little plastic wings and then the pilot touched me in a bad place

what really happened...............

[Sgt PSN]

every place that man put his strong, physical hands was actually a good place.  meee-owww

[Yeti]

 

[Susquehanna Birder]

"Did you ever see a grown man naked?"