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Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center (or Miami Center, ZMA) is one of 22 [1] United States air route traffic control centers (ARTCs), or area control centers, located at 7500 N.W. 58th st, Miami-Dade County, Florida (Miami postal address).
The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
At 13:45, control of Flight 705 was transferred to Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center. There were communication difficulties, although after the jet was provided with a different frequency to use, the flight crew established contact with Miami ARTCC. Several minutes after contact was established, the jet entered a severe updraft.
Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The following is the alphabetic list of all ACCs and their FIRs as of October 2011:
MIA building 871, originally known as Pan Am Airport’s Hangar 5, now serves a Miami air charter company that has counted the Miami Heat and the U.S. military as frequent flyers.
[2]: 1–2 The flight first entered U.S. airspace of Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center at 17:28, flying at 35,000 feet (10,700 m), and proceeded northward, climbing to 37,000 feet (11,300 m). [f] The flight was cleared to fly Atlantic route 7 to the DIXON navigational aid [g] and jet airway 174 to Norfolk, Virginia.
Scandinavian Airlines — commonly known as SAS, and the carrier of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway — resumed non-stop flights from Miami International Airport to Scandinavia on Oct. 29.
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