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Mistakes on trainee day foreshadowed air traffic chaos
Pamela Kerr, a 26 year old FAA trainee, guided twelve planes over Oklahoma but nearly collided with Ozark Flight 400, scoring only 15 on a test problem. Nine days later she graduated with 133 others from the FAA Academy as the system still reels from the PATCO strike, with staffing shortages and rising near collisions testing the post strike recovery.
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Oklahoma City
Pamela Kerr
Oklahoma
Ozark
Federal Aviation Administration
Kerr
FAA Academy
FAA
Reagan
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
PATCO
Chicago
New York
Boston
Delta Air Lines
Atlantic
Continental Airlines
Aeromexico
Cerritos
Calif
Salt Lake City
Utah
Guy Molinari
Rn.y
White House
Frank Lautenberg
D-N.j
Wendell Ford
D-Ky
Aviation Subcommittee
Ford
Congress
Transportation
Elizabeth Dole
Capitol Hill
Dole
National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB
Jim Burnett