A28 - Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1981 - North Shore News

OTTAWA (UPC) - The
Canadian Air Traffic
Controllers Association,
‘citing another 164 breaches,
of air safety regulations,
reiterated its call Tuesday

' for the suspension of all air
traffic between Canada and
the United States.

In releasing the latest
reports of joint government-
union monitoring teams,
CATCA president William
Robertson charged that the
skies were still unsafe two
months after U.S. con-
trollers went on strike.

The teams were
established to investigate air
safety when Canadian
controllers refused to handle
flights because they claimed
inexperienced personnel
were manning U.S. airports.

‘Robertson said that up to
Sept. 16, the joint teams had
recorded 164 incidents in
transborder traffic. In-
cluding previous incidents,
he said there were now 244

“confirmed errors”, with
another 50 still under in-
vestigation.

“We certainly reaffirm our
call to end transborder air
traffic until this situation is
cleaned up in the United
States,” Robertson told. a
news conference. “It’s very
disappointing the Depart-
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we expect they will remain
as intransigent as in the
past.” ~

However, he said, con-
trollers would remain on tWe

job and honor their
agreement with the
government to allow the

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vestigate the situation. The
agreement was struck Aug.
12 after the controllers had
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ternational aviation into
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The federal government
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. nothing new in the reports,

and maintained air traffic
between the two countries
would not be curtailed.

But Robertson contended
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-incident rate continues at an-~

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there is no indication of any
lessening of the hazards
inherent in the present U-S.
air traffic control system.”
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an independent body, had
concluded there was a
“conspiracy among pilots to
overlook unsafe situations,
and operate unsafely, to
appear to make the sub
stitute U.S. system work.”
Of the 164 incidents,

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Robertson said three ‘were
near-misses, three were
“hazardous” and 27 were
“potentially hazardous”. The
reports concluded that in 94
cases U.S. controllers had
used “incorrect procedures”
that did not constitute a
threat to air safety. -

The remaining incidents
were either -inconclusive,
attributed to pilot error or to
errors by Canadian con-
trollers, Robertson said.

Since the reports were
first released last month, the
Department’ of Transport
has maintained the incidents
were a normal part of air
traffic, the controllers had
exagerrated and the skies
were still safe.

“The situation has not
changed,” said spokesman
Dave Austin. “The incidents
haye been exploited. It’s new
data added to old data that
has surfaced in another

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He added that none of. the
near-misses constituted a
real danger because the
government and the con-
troilers did not define near-
misses the same way. Some
alleged near-misses were in
American airspace, he
added, which was the
responsibility of the. United
States.

Robertson said of the most
serious incidents, two oc-

curred on Aug. 6and Aug. 8,
when Vancouver controllers
prevented a private jet and
United Airlines Flight 681
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