[snopercod]

The contollers at the NY ARTCC were in shock - probably crying - and maybe it's a good thing that the ambulance-chasing media isn't making a circus over what was said on that fateful day.

I can just imagine that after the media got done splashing out of context, yet emotional sound bites all over the airwaves, the lawyers would step in and sue everybody for everything that was said.

Sometimes, it's better that tapes like these just go away.

Maybe boots disagrees with me on this.

[Middle Man]

"Sometimes, it's better that tapes like these just go away."

I don't think it's better that a low-level unelected civil servant makes a call like this when the outcome affects every one of us, and will for years to come, if estimates that the "war on terror" will likely drag on for another 20 years are true.

[bootless]

Naw, I don't disagree. As I said, I don't know that much about ATC other than what I hear from PR and Scooter. You've been there, and I trust your judgment on the details.

:-)