Thursday, July 11 at the International Airport Juan Domingo Peron Neuquen (Argentina), we have avoided the disaster: the only controller on duty stung a nap while a commercial aircraft sought to join for the authorization to land.
Unanswered the control tower and no set, the crew finally made the decision to land the plane and it succeeds without any technical problem. Alerted airport police Juan Domingo Peron was discovered inside the control tower, the air traffic controller trying to take a nap on a mattress. The airport authorities have, however, not released information on the commercial flight or the airline.
For its part, the Argentine Air Force, which is responsible to use and manage air traffic in Argentina, told AFP that justice has been taken to investigate the incident. APTA, the combination of the technical staff of the Argentine Civil Aviation, however, defended the air traffic controller, stating that the staff at the airport of Juan Domingo Peron is understaffed, where the presence a single controller (so sleepy) in the control tower at the time. The Argentine press reported another incident that happened a few months ago at the same airport: a controller, which would provide only his service had not gone to work. The airport had to send the police search his home.
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