American Air Traffic Controller Blows Whistle: ‘Our System Is Mentally Breaking People’

American Air Traffic Controller Blows Whistle: “Our System Is Mentally Breaking People”

A veteran U.S. air traffic controller calls the state of the profession “abysmal” and “shameful,” revealing that mentally ill or depressed controllers are afraid to seek help—because doing so could cost them their medical clearance and career. “I can’t in good conscience promote this job anymore,” he says, warning the system is crumbling and dangerously unsustainable.