91. Democrats, air traffic controllers, grumble. 92. Do air traffic controllers believe in angels, celestial bodies or what have you? 93. Earnings from FlightSafety, which provides training to airline pilots and air traffic controllers, were not released. 94. English is the language of the Internet, of movies and music, of air traffic controllers and captains at sea. 95. FAA officials would not release tapes of air traffic controllers talking to the American Airlines flight crew. 96. Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers must work with an antiquated system never meant to handle this kind of traffic, which causes the delays. 97. Eventually, Federal Aviation Administration officials, Oakland airport traffic controllers, and a helicopter pilot from the East Bay Regional Parks system tracked its wandering course. 98. For example, FAA regulations usually require air traffic controllers to keep airplanes at least five miles apart horizontally during low-visibility conditions. 99. For decades, aircraft traffic has been controlled by ground-based radar stations, with air traffic controllers communicating with pilots by radio. 100. From the Pittsburgh airport, air traffic controllers saw dense smoke rising to the northwest. |