Additional Press Clips Mentioning The Work of Controllers
Seattle Times
Los Angeles Times (Story appeared in the LA Times and also was published by se veral
other Tribune Content Agency - subscriber media outlets . )
USA Today
Aviation International News
Navy Times
The Atlantic
The Daily Mail (U.K.)
Air Transport World
Additionally, esteemed aviation writer and pilot James Fallows of The A tlantic wrote
about the incident in this story that appeared on Aug. 12 .
Writes Fallows: "I challeng e anyone to listen to the ATC tapes, either the condensed or
(especially) the extended version, and not come away impressed at the calm, humane,
sophisticated, utterly unflappable competence of the men and women who talked with
the pilot while handling thi s emergency. My wife, Deb, has written often about the
respect she's gained for controllers by talking with them in our travels over the years.
These are public employees, faced with a wholly unprecedented life - and - death
challenge, and comporting themselves in a way that does enormous credit to them as
individuals, and to the system in which they work. In addition t o talking to the hijacker -
pilot, Seattle ATC was talking with the scores of other airline pilots whose flights were
affected by the emergency. See if you detect any testiness, confusion, or exasperation in
those pilots' replies."
JULY SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATE
From Meagan Roper:
In the month of July , NATCA soci al media messages received 1.6 million impressions
garnering 34,814 engagements from users, an 88 p ercent increase in impressions and
112 percent increase in engagements from the previous month.
We gained 722 followers across all platforms for a 2.4 percent increase. Notably, on July
24 - 25 alone (7/24 was the date of the job bid post) we gained a total of 447 followers
across all four platforms. During that same period, we received 3,986 comments or
messag es from our followers, a 317 percent increase over the previous month.
Top stories on all four platforms were the job posting & posts about Barry Krasner.
Facebook
Job announce ment .
Barry Tribute .
Election results .
Instagram
Recruitment .
Barry Tribute .
LinkedIN:
STARS .
