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unusual facts about air traffic controllers



2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash

Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 9:02 am while it was passing through the dense Nallamala forest area.

Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids

The 9/11 Commission Report made reference to this unprecedented order and commended the air traffic controllers who carried it out.

Test of English for Aviation

Following several accidents and incidents where language was a contributory factor (such as the Tenerife airport disaster#Communication misunderstandings), the International Civil Aviation Organization now requires all civil pilots and Air traffic controllers (working in an international environment) to have a minimum level of English.


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32d Air Operations Squadron

The first group of American airmen, compromised quartermasters and air traffic controllers, arrived at Soesterberg on 6 October 1954.

Guanghan

The Civil Aviation Flight University of China educates a large percentage of China's aviation professionals from Airline pilots and Air Traffic Controllers to engineers, cabin crew, administrators, and clerks.

North Atlantic Tracks

Air Traffic Controllers responsible for the Gander FIR are based at the Gander Oceanic Control Centre in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.