Is a 9-Year-Old Directing Your Flight?

FAA officials and travelers are fuming over audio tapes released of what sounds like a young child directing air traffic from a control tower at JFK airport.

On February 17th, at one of the world’s busiest airports, a child’s voice can be heard clearing airplanes for take-off and landing. At one point, and adult is heard joking, “That’s what happens when kids are off of school.”

The FAA isn’t laughing and have opened an investigation as to how a child was allowed to talk to pilots in the air.  In the meantime, officials say the adult accompanying the child and the controller’s supervisor have both been suspended.