NEW YORK (AP) — An air traffic controller at New York’s Kennedy Airport has been suspended after he allowed two children to radio instructions to several pilots.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday the children did so over two days in mid-February.
The first night, the controller brought his young son to work and let him squawk a few routine messages over the radio to pilots waiting to take off.
The FAA says the controller brought a different child the next evening.
The agency 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 few quick exchanges between the children and jets waiting to take off from JFK became public after they were recorded and posted on the Internet.
