The Nation - News from June 15, 1987

Rep. Cardiss Collins (D-Ill.) is pressing the Administration to order drug and alcohol testing, when requested by federal safety investigators, for air traffic controllers involved in aviation accidents. Collins, who heads a House Government Operations subcommittee, complained in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole that the Federal Aviation Administration is telling air traffic controllers they may “refuse National Transportation Safety Board investigator requests that they be tested for drugs and alcohol.”