Masato Yamazaki stated in the declaration,” We strongly urge the realization of a significant increase in number of air traffic controllers,” adding that debate about the crash’s cause ran the risk of taxing controller mental capacity.
Officials ordered air traffic control turrets at Haneda and various airports across the nation to continuously monitor radar techniques for potential airport intrusions as an emergency measure in the midst of the injury.
Yamazaki claimed that this added to the strain on the already-extended employees, though he expressed optimism that the government did make new hires to carry out this duty.
He claimed that despite an increase in controller load, repeated personnel requests to the authorities, which immediately employs air traffic controllers in Japan, have only recently received partial approval.
It is insufficient to establish genuine safety, he claimed.
The transport department of Japan was not immediately reachable for opinion.
Air traffic control staff shortages are a problem in other nations, including the United States and France, which airlines have claimed pose threats to aviation protection.
According to statistics from the transport department, the number of air traffic control employees in Japan dropped to its lowest level in at least 19 years next year, continuing a steady decrease over that time.
Aside from a sharp decline in the number of airlines handled by each operator during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in that amount over time. According to the agency’s data, each air traffic control technician in Japan handled close to 7, 000 planes in 2019, an increase from about 4, 600 in 2004.