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Benedict L. Sliney (born October 12, 1945) [1] [2] is an American retired lawyer, air traffic controller, and former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Operations Manager. His first day in this position was on September 11, 2001, and he was responsible for ordering a National Ground Stop across United States airspace in response to ...
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.
In December 2000, an organization within the FAA called the Air Traffic Organization, [12] (ATO) was set up by presidential executive order. This became the air navigation service provider for the airspace of the United States and for the New York (Atlantic) and Oakland (Pacific) oceanic areas.
FAA: 2007-07-11: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, Fort Lauderdale, FL: United Airlines Flight 1544 and Delta Air Lines Flight 1489: Airbus A320 and Boeing 757: Lateral: 230 feet (70m) NTSB FAA: 2007-05-26: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA: Republic Airlines Flight 4912 and Skywest Airlines Flight 5741: Embraer 170 and ...
The first officer's ASI was functional, though subsequent warning indicators caused the aircrew to question its veracity as well. The aircraft took off normally at 23:42 AST for the first leg of the flight. At 2,500 feet (760 m), the flight switched to main air traffic control and was instructed to climb to flight level 280 (28,000 ft or 8,500 m).
Transair Flight 810 was a Boeing 737-200 converted freighter aircraft, owned and operated by Rhoades Aviation under the Transair trade name, on a short cargo flight en route from Honolulu International Airport to Kahului Airport on the neighboring Hawaiian island of Maui on July 2, 2021.
Built in 1995, the FAA Norfolk Air Traffic Control Tower stands 134 feet (41 m) high. Operated and managed by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Norfolk Tower handles about 1,100 aircraft per day, 24 hours per day and 365 days per year. Radar coverage is provided by the ASR-9 terminal system with a six-level weather detection capability.