ATC lipsa-pauza @ DCA/KDCA

Titlu: Air Traffic Control Abandoned as Two Passenger Planes Try To Land
Sursa: http://gizmodo.com/#!5785259/air-traffic-control-abandoned-as-two-passenger-planes-try-to-land
Autor: Brian Barrett

Citat :

Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, two DC airliners approached Washington DC's Reagan National Airport. They waited for guidance from air traffic control. And waited. And waited. And waited. They never got a response.

The two pilots—responsible for the safety of a combined 165 passengers—managed to land only by coordinating between themselves, giving each other regular status updates and confirming with their airlines which runway they were supposed to approach. A third plane was able to land a half hour later, only after ATC had been restored

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