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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who was the ATC who left their shift early? Who was the supervisor who let them?[/quote]

Maybe they had explosive diarrhea. You have no idea the circumstances. [/quote]

Shouldn't they have a backup?[/quote]

[b]Have you missed all the coverage everywhere about how understaffed the ENTIRE FAA is, and has been for a long time?[/b] Magical "backups" don't just appear, PP. Maybe they should, but they aren't a given like you seem to assume. Not in such an understaffed environment. Keep up with the coverage better. Even the increasingly problematic Post has covered this. [/quote]

This. It sounds like many of you people either never read the news or never travel. We recently flew into and out of Newark on our way out of the country and the flights had to circle for HOURS because they couldn't land all the planes they had up there safely with so few ATCs.[/quote]

I was on a flight a year ago and this happened with DCA.  The flight attendant told me it was getting really common at DCA because they were so short staffed on ATCs.  She said they sometimes even have to divert to Dulles because they don’t have the fuel to keep circling.  I’ve been trying to fly BWI instead of DCA but it’s not always possible.  
If there was another ATC specifically for the helicopter traffic maybe they could have been more specific or said something immediately when it became clear the helicopter was not in the right place.
I feel like if they had to close the airport for ATC shortages they would staff them with more redundancy.  [/quote]

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