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Both pilots in the Grand Canyon incident were on "visual flight rules," and not assigned to a definite airway, because Arizona and most of the Southwest are classified as "free air," and are not completely controlled by the CAA...
...this collision, and the others that occurred before and after it, have demonstrated that a more reliable safeguard that the human nervous system is needed. The CAA tracking system relies on manual posting of each plane's position on a map, and cannot possibly control all flights. In addition, military planes operate under a separate, more stringent control system, and the lack of co-ordination between civil and military aviation can result in such collisions as the one in Nevada last month...
...ground, a mighty communications system sparked into action. CAA stations, military bases and airline offices monitored Obie's radio. In the dimly lit control room at Fat Chance, a Texas-based air defense radar station, trackers picked up Obie's blip on their screen. Like a tiny translucent pearl on green glass, the blip moved toward its target, rolling to one side, then to another, now erratic, now steady, minute by minute, guided all the while by Fat Chance...
...crash grimly underscored the stacks of longstanding complaints about the U.S.'s air traffic control systems: CAA and military ground control are poorly coordinated, wield separate authority over an overcrowded air space (11,000 planes fly the U.S. skies in any hour of the day), and CAA itself is badly understaffed and underequipped. "We cannot excuse the Government," said angered U.A.L. President William Allan Patterson, "for trying to solve a problem with divided authority and responsibility. I can only say that I hope the conscience of those in the Government agencies involved is as clear as I believe ours...
SUPER TRAVEL AGENCY combining regulatory powers of CAB, CAA, ICC, Maritime Board and Maritime Administration is being seriously considered by the Eisenhower Administration. Reason: existing agencies are bogged down in red tape, often cannot cope with modern transportation needs...