Today's news here is about a fatal crash - on the ground at a metropolitan airport, mind - of two light planes at 6.30 in the evening. After a recent decision, the control tower is no longer manned from 6.00pm on account of typically low traffic after dinner.
And a dirty great tanker has just run into the Great Barrier Reef. The pilot was on the bridge so may be in serious trouble. Hardly fair, I suggest, as it transpires he was enduring the 50th (I shit thee not) hour of his shift at the time! And I still feel for that poor control tower chappie - by himself in the middle of Europe, tasked with the little job of keeping jet liners full of people from running into each other. Does anyone keep a list of, er, unfortunate incidents on the criterian of 'efficiencies' like this? It'd be a bastard of a big job, and getting bigger exponentially, but surely The Lord's Work? Cheers, Rob.
