1.   Air traffic controllers told the pilots to circle over Indiana and wait their turn.

2.   Elliott said in one training flight, a controller told a foreign pilot to cross the river and turn right, and then he would see the airport.

3.   If planes are joining an approach queue faster than they are landing, air traffic controllers simply tell them to fly slower, or not to take off.

4.   Sometimes, controllers tell a pilot to make a turn so they can tell which blip is a plane.

5.   The controller told the crew to make a right turn to avoid the American plane.

6.   The controller told the pilot to head west, Peduzzi said.

7.   The controller told the plane to turn left to lose altitude.

8.   The controllers also told inbound jets to slow down, but the arrival delays were minor, officials said.

9.   The civilian investigators said that the military controller told the wrong controller at New York Center, but that the information was promptly sent to the right controller.

10.   The excerpt begins just after air traffic controllers have told the pilots to head to a different runway.