However, on Wednesday, an air traffic control supervisor combined those duties sometime before 9:30 p.m. and allowed one air traffic controller to leave the job early, the Times reported.

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In the old days, before 2010, the immunity program, if an air traffic controller got two airplanes too close too many times, they would be decertified and retrained,” Pearson said.