The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilots at the controls that night, are refusing to cooperate.
Disaster was averted when an air traffic controller, using an expletive, urgently told pilots of the Delta jet to stop their takeoff. Audio recordings show that the controller immediately communicated the severity of the situation to the American Airlines crew.
So had the pilots been distracted? Were they simply confused? Without the recording, they're the only ones who can say, and for now, they aren't saying anything. The union said that changing the interviews from notes to recordings "discourages otherwise cooperative witnesses from participating in the fact-finding process" and runs against the purpose of promoting safety.
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