An Air Traffic Controller Looks at the Events of 9/11

Audio interview with pilot and former Boston Center air traffic controller, Robin Hordon.

The job of air traffic control; Flight AA11; the hijack versus the emergency protocol; war games and radar screen blips; remote control of aircraft, i.e., flight director; and Flight AA 77.

April 18, 2007
KPFA
Guns and Butter

streaming audio here: http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php

Damn, you reminded me

I read the other day about they now have the ability to fly a plane while sitting anywhere and controlling it by remote control from miles and miles away

I gotta remember the article and where I read it

Think it was in the business section of the Times...Was it Sunday???

They are starting to market this...

now makes you wonder...