work. departure, jetblue 171, awesome job. 0-3 clear for takeoff. air mention 403, contact departure. adios. contact departure, air mexico. contact departure, adios amigos. that s what happens on a snow day. at some point, can air travel get worse? like, is he going to screw it up? no. i think he was doing a very good job, don t you? g giving very clear directions. pilots laughing. thought it was cute. but the faa didn t think it was too cute. both the controller and supervisor have been suspended as the investigation continues. i have a feeling they will be in really big trouble and they didn t use the best judgment. but i don t know. i m just going to be quiet,
sense of balance and judgment. and, unfortunately, we have a late-breaking development on the story. it turns out that the very next night he brought his daughter in and she, too, was on the radio. she s an 8 cleerld twin. jetblue 57 contact new york departure. jetblue 57. that s the next generation of air traffic controller going on here. the next generation of air traffic controllers is what the father then says and clearly any distraction in a tower is completely inappropriate and that s apparently what was happening. nothing bad happened but this violates every tenant of what is supposed to happen in a tower. there s no way that could have been scripted for a time and as a pilot with a couple thousand of hours, the first sound clip of the boy, he was perfect. i mean, he was using the proper verbiage and the proper terms and it could have been as if his
recently at the home where michael jackson s children live. one of their cousins reportedly ordered a stun gun and had it delivered to their house. apparently jafar tested it on a piece of paper. katherine jackson, the grandmother, heard the noise and confiscated the we re. an attorney says the jackson kids were never exposed to the stun gun. an investigation is under way at new york s jfk international airport after an air traffic controller and a supervisor allowed a child to give orders to pilots preparing for takeoff. this is what the pilots heard. jetblue 171 contact departure. over to departure jetblue 171. awesome job. 03 clear for takeoff. let s bring in tom costello. how big a violation is this? reporter: it s a pretty big violation. children are not supposed to be giving clearances for commercial aircraft and, listen, this is
under investigation after they allowed a young boy to deliver radio transmissions to aircraft preparing for takeoff. here is what the pilots heard. jetblue 171, clear for takeoff. clear for takeoff, jetblue 171. this is what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school. wish i could bring my kid to work. jetblue 171, contact departure. departure, jetblue 171. awesome job. 0-3 clear for takeoff. yes. that was a child s voice. apparently he s the son of one of the controllers. but the effort to show the child what his dad does for a living isn t sitting well with the federal aviation administration. rehema ellis has more from our studios in new york. david, the child s voice is darling, cute, but a lot of people didn t think this was a cute act. the result of it, the faa is taking action and launching an investigation. in fact we want to put up on the
rove defends the bush administration to hurricane katrina and blames state and local officials for the troubled recover efforts. and a federal investigation under way after an air traffic controller apparently this is great. this is great. this is an unbelievable story. i know. i m not going to say what i think, because i think i m going to get killed on this. but apparently allowed a child to give directions to pilots. just listen. just listen. the kennedy employee brought his school-aged kid into the tower, where he made a series of transmissions to departing passenger planes. this recording was obtained by live atc.net. take a listen. jetblue 171, clear for takeoff. clear for takeoff, jetblue 171. this is what you get guys when the kids are out of school. good i didn t bring my kid to