Traffic Control
In the early twenty-first century, there are approximately 5000 commercial and private airplanes in the air at any one moment. The task of the U.S. Air Traffic Control System is to ens...
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Aircraft Traffic Management
In the early days of aviation, airplanes were mostly used as joy rides, in air shows, and for just general "barnstorming." Even into the 1920s, debate occurre...
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Air Traffic Control
A horrible air disaster occurred in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956, when a two commercial aircraft, operated by Trans World Airlines and United Airlines and flying in clea...
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Brazil's airlines were trying to make up for lengthy flight delays Monday after its troubled air traffic control system failed over the weekend, stranding travelers just months after a breakdown th...
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A team led by defense company ITT Corp. on Thursday won a government contract worth up to $1.8 billion to build the first portion of a new satellite-based air traffic control system.The Federal Avi...
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Air traffic controllers told Congress on Tuesday that poor maintenance of their aging work places has hampered and harmed them and could endanger the flying public.The Federal Aviation Administrati...
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Ron Carpenter and his fellow air traffic controllers were busy keeping more than 200 airplanes on course over seven states when their communication system crashed. Suddenly they couldn't talk to pi...
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Buelach, Switzerland (dpa) - The trial of eight Swiss air traffic
controllers accused of manslaughter through negligence is to begin
Tuesday in the 2002 air crash that kille...
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A fired air traffic controller accused of planting homemade bombs outside the houses of a former superior and co-workers was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday in a plea deal with prosecutors.R...
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Moscow (dpa) - The Russian who killed a Swiss air traffic
controller he blamed for the death of his wife and children in a mid-
2002 air collision returned home Tuesday to a...
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Lausanne, Switzerland (dpa) - A Russian man convicted of killing a
Swiss air traffic controller will not be freed from prison this week,
Switzerland's highest court ruled Th...
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Lausanne, Switzerland (dpa) - The Russian who killed a Swiss air
traffic controller in the wake of the mid-air collision disaster in
mid-2002 could soon be freed, the Swiss ...
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U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley is worried that there aren’t enough air traffic controllers at McCarran International Airport to safely manage the congested skies surrounding Las Vegas and has sent...
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Traffic Control
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Air Traffic Control
Brazil air traffic control system fails
