Word: hartle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only an "act of God" averted a disaster...