{"id":287041,"date":"2025-09-19T05:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wake-up-call-french-jet-left-circling-airport-after-air-traffic-controller-fell-asleep\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:10:27","slug":"wake-up-call-french-jet-left-circling-airport-after-air-traffic-controller-fell-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287041","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Call: French Jet Left Circling Airport After Air Traffic Controller Fell Asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 15, an Air Corsica<\/a><\/span> aircraft was forced to circle near Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (AJA) for about 20 minutes after the air traffic controller (ATC) fell asleep in the tower. The controller eventually woke up after repeated calls from the crew and intervention of the fire department, and the flight landed safely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air Corsica pilots were left with no response from the air traffic controller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12904,582,396,475,94,16229,2785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-corsica","category-airbus-a321","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-france","category-plane-incident","category-sleep"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t